danger
IPA: dˈeɪndʒɝ
noun
- Exposure to likely harm; peril.
- An instance or cause of likely harm.
- (obsolete) Mischief.
- (mainly outside US, rail transport) The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").
- (obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
- (obsolete) Liability.
- (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.
verb
- (obsolete) To claim liability.
- (obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
- (obsolete) To run the risk.
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Examples of "danger" in Sentences
- But putting other people in danger is an entirely different matter.
- "The danger isn't the point -- _it's the fear of danger_," said Darrow.
- He feels that he is in danger from the animal/men and from Dr. Moreau himself and does not know where to turn.
- Madison anticipated this precise danger from Slavery, and upheld this precise grant of power in order to counteract this danger_.
- There was danger to this country, danger of the avenging justice of God, in that little unimportant Popular Sovereignty question of Judge Douglas.
- The term "danger play" is less frequently found in the literature; it refers to a manoeuvre that guards against an unlikely distribution but loses a vital trick if the lie of cards is more or less normal.
- "Contrariwise, those private individuals who expose themselves to danger without any legitimate excuse run great risk of tempting God and losing His grace; since it is written that _he that loveth danger_ (still more he that seeketh it) _shall perish in it_." [
- Cornplanter, their most experienced warrior, should not leave them; but that a sufficient deputation, for which they had obtained volunteers, should accompany Col. Proctor, at the same time advising him of the danger, admonishing him to proceed with caution; "_to reach his neck over the land, and take in all the light he could, that would show him his danger_."
- That the Government was however determined, and so were all the Departments, that this should never happen again; no doubt the danger from the Socialists was great, all over the world; that _that_ was the _real danger_, and that they would readily make another attempt like the fearful one in June (the result of which for three days was uncertain), but that they had not the power; that he was continually impressing upon all his friends in France the necessity of supporting _whatever_ form of Government there was _whose object_ was the _maintenance of order_, and to unite "contre cet ennemi commun."
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