imperil
verb
, -ˈpe-rəl\
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adventure, compromise, endanger, gamble (with), hazard, jeopard, jeopardize, menace, peril, risk, venture
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Also imperiled were the Bahamas , where canned food and bottled water were disappearing quickly and the sound of hammering echoed across the islands as people boarded up their homes. — Washington Post, "Dorian becomes a Category 4 monster powering toward Florida," 31 Aug. 2019 Also imperiled were the Bahamas, where canned food and bottled water were disappearing quickly from shelves and the sound of hammering echoed across the islands as people boarded up their homes. — Ellis Rua, BostonGlobe.com, "Fierce Category 4 Dorian strengthens en route to Bahamas," 31 Aug. 2019 Also imperiled were the Bahamas, where the sound of hammering echoed across the islands as people boarded up their homes. — Author: Adriana Gomez Licon, Ellis Rua, Anchorage Daily News, "Hurricane Dorian puts 10 million Floridians in its path," 30 Aug. 2019 Also imperiled were the Bahamas, with Dorian’s expected track running just to the north of Great Abaco and Grand Bahama islands. — Adriana Gomez Licon, The Denver Post, "Florida braces for Hurricane Dorian, Monday landfall expected," 29 Aug. 2019 The agreement has been increasingly imperiled since the United States abandoned the accord more than a year ago and renewed its own sanctions on Iran. — New York Times, "E.U. Ministers, Scrambling to Save Iran Nuclear Deal, Play Down Breaches," 15 July 2019 Several decades into the age of digital media, the ability to leave one’s childhood and adolescent years behind is now imperiled. — Kate Eichhorn, WIRED, "Social Media Could Make It Impossible to Grow Up," 8 July 2019 The actual well-being of these places is imperiled in part by our refusal to see them clearly. — Marilynne Robinson, Harper's magazine, "Is Poverty Necessary?," 10 June 2019 Dominguez, the union president, said the district attorney has needlessly imperiled convictions by revisiting an issue that was already settled. — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, "Court filing raises new questions about Orange County’s handling of informant scandal," 22 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'imperil.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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