Endangered
[ɪn'deɪndʒəd] or [ɪn'dendʒɚd]
Definition
(adj.) (of flora or fauna) in imminent danger of extinction; 'an endangered species' .
Editor: Lois--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Endanger
Checker: Shelia
Examples
- 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.
- Meanwhile, the lord of the beleaguered and endangered castle lay upon a bed of bodily pain and mental agony. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The royal blood of Alfred is endangered, said Cedric. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Checker: Shelia