peril
[noun]
Synonyms: danger, hazard, jeopardy, menace, risk, uncertainty

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Related Idioms: cause for alarm, rocks (or breakers) ahead
Related Words: exposure, liability, openness, subjection, endangerment

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

per‧il /ˈperəl, ˈperɪl/ noun
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: Latin periculum]

1. [uncountable] literary or formal great danger, especially of being harmed or killed
in peril
They put their own lives in peril to rescue their friends.
great/grave/serious peril
The economy is now in grave peril.
a voyage that was fraught with peril (=full of danger)

2. [countable usually plural] literary formal a danger or problem in a particular activity or situation:
the perils posed by mountaineering
peril of
the perils of the sea

3. do something at your peril used to say that what someone is intending to do is dangerous or could cause them problems:
Politicians ignore this issue at their peril.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

peril
noun
I. great danger
ADJ. deadly, dire, grave, great
VERB + PERIL be at/in | put sth in
PREP. ~ of All aboard were in grave peril of drowning.
PHRASES at your ~ Ignore these warnings at your peril.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

peril
II. sth dangerous
ADJ. great the great perils facing the environment
immediate | hidden
VERB + PERIL face We face the immediate peril of being bought out by another company.
avoid
PERIL + VERB face sth

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲