Endanger
[ɪn'deɪn(d)ʒə;en-] or [ɪn'dendʒɚ]
Definition
(verb.) pose a threat to; present a danger to; 'The pollution is endangering the crops'.
Inputed by Dan--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace.
(v. t.) To incur the hazard of; to risk.
Edited by Dwight
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Hazard, risk, peril, jeopardize, commit, compromit, expose to danger, put at hazard, put in peril, put in jeopardy.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Imperil, expose, per_il, jeopardize, hazard, risk
ANT:Cover, defend, protect, shield, screen
Typed by Gus
Definition
v.t. to place in danger: to expose to loss or injury.—ns. Endan′gerer; Endan′germent hazard peril.
Edited by Barrett
Examples
- If you really don't want to endanger my existence--which I half believe you do--go your ways as soon as possible, and let me go mine. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- America does not play with ideas; generous speculation is regarded as insincere, and shunned as if it might endanger the optimism which underlies success. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Fire risk is reduced to a minimum, because there are no matches, no kindlings, no kerosene cans, no oil barrels and nothing of the sort to endanger life and property. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Emma was gratified, to observe such a proof in her of strengthened character, and refrained from any allusion that might endanger its maintenance. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It occurred to me as inconsistent, that, for any mastering idea, he should have endangered his freedom, and even his life. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In Provence, on his way out of the country, his life was endangered by a royalist mob. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Not that we would have endangered his safety by any tremendous weather--but only by a steady contrary wind, or a calm. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He had returned when he did, on the pressing and written entreaty of a French citizen, who represented that his life was endangered by his absence. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- That they should be man and wife in good time, if the happiness of neither were endangered thereby, was the fancy in question. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- That earlier world before 600 B.C. was one in which a lonely stranger was a rare and suspected and endangered being. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Eustacia could not help replying, though conscious that she endangered her dignity thereby. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Formerly the bobbins on which the yarns were wound increased in speed as they were filled, thus endangering and often breaking the thread, and at all times increasing the tension. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The Major was twirling them round by the little chain from which they sometimes hung to their lady's waist, and was thereby endangering his own eye. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The defenders of the works could not have fired upon us without endangering their own men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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