ENDANGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does endanger mean? 

• ENDANGER (verb)
  The verb ENDANGER has 2 senses:

1. pose a threat to; present a danger to

2. put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

  Familiarity information: ENDANGER used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENDANGER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they endanger    ... he / she / it endangers   
Past simple: endangered   
Past participle: endangered   
-ing form: endangering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pose a threat to; present a danger to

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

endanger; imperil; jeopardise; jeopardize; menace; peril; threaten

Context example:

The pollution is endangering the crops

Hypernyms (to "endanger" is one way to...):

be; exist (have an existence, be extant)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They endanger the animals

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

endanger; expose; peril; queer; scupper

Hypernyms (to "endanger" is one way to...):

affect; bear on; bear upon; impact; touch; touch on (have an effect upon)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "endanger"):

compromise (expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

A total 2,607 rare, endemic, or threatened animal species were surveyed in Bahia, out of which 331 have been listed for protection in various threat categories—vulnerable (140); endangered (131); critically endangered (54) and regionally extinct (5).

(Over 300 animal species threatened in Bahia, Agência Brasil)

Researchers studied the resilience of four species of coastal birds, including the endangered saltmarsh sparrow.

(Coastal birds can weather the storm, but not the sea, National Science Foundation)

There are now scientists calling for the largest cheetah subspecies to receive "endangered" status on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species.

(Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts, Wikinews)

Across the world, people are struggling to survive in the same areas as endangered animals, and often trouble surfaces in areas we aren't anticipating.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

But when the system gets out of whack, the cycle breaks down and endangers the reef's health.

(Too much algae and too many microbes threaten coral reefs, NSF)

Emma was gratified, to observe such a proof in her of strengthened character, and refrained from any allusion that might endanger its maintenance.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The emperor, and all his court, came out to meet us; but his great officers would by no means suffer his majesty to endanger his person by mounting on my body.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

After all, she was only a woman, crying her relief, now that the danger was past, in the arms of her protector or of the one who had been endangered.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Yet it is terrible to reflect that the lives of all these men are endangered through me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

And I can't bear to hear you provoking the gentlemen, and endangering of yourself more.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)