IMPERIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does imperil mean? 

• IMPERIL (verb)
  The verb IMPERIL has 1 sense:

1. pose a threat to; present a danger to

  Familiarity information: IMPERIL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPERIL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they imperil    ... he / she / it imperils   
Past simple: imperiled    / imperilled   
Past participle: imperiled    / imperilled   
-ing form: imperiling    / imperilling   

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 "imperil" is one way to...):

be; exist (have an existence, be extant)

Sentence frames:

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

Sentence example:

They imperil the animals

 Context examples 

Yet the Abbot Berghersh was a man of too firm a grain to allow one bold outbreak to imperil the settled order of his great household.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A situation that imperils the existence of an entity.

(Life Threatening, NCI Thesaurus)

“You have already imperilled the whole success of our expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For he steals my bread and meat and bed, and in so doing imperils my life.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Nobody seemed interested in the wantonly imperilled life.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)