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 Definitions for Danger: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Danger \Dan"ger\, n. [OE. danger, daunger, power, arrogance,
refusal, difficulty, fr. OF. dagier, dongier (with same
meaning), F. danger danger, fr. an assumed LL. dominiarium
power, authority, from L. dominium power, property. See
Dungeon, Domain, Dame.]
1. Authority; jurisdiction; control. [Obs.]
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In dangerhad he . . . the young girls. --Chaucer.
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2. Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty. [Obs.]
See {In one's danger}, below.
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You stand within his danger, do you not? --Shak.
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Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in
dangerof this statute. --Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
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3. Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril;
risk; insecurity.
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4. Difficulty; sparingness. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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5. Coyness; disdainful behavior. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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{In one's danger}, in one's power; liable to a penalty to be
inflicted by him. [Obs.] This sense is retained in the
proverb, "Out of debt out of danger."
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Those rich man in whose debt and danger they be not.
--Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
To do danger, to cause danger. [Obs.] --Shak.
Syn: Peril; hazard; risk; jeopardy.
Usage: Danger, Peril, Hazard, Risk, Jeopardy.
Danger is the generic term, and implies some
contingent evil in prospect. Peril is instant or
impending danger; as, in peril of one's life. Hazard
arises from something fortuitous or beyond our
control; as, the hazard of the seas. Risk is doubtful
or uncertain danger, often incurred voluntarily; as,
to risk an engagement. Jeopardy is extreme danger.
Danger of a contagious disease; the perils of
shipwreck; the hazards of speculation; the risk of
daring enterprises; a life brought into jeopardy.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Danger \Dan"ger\, v. t.
To endanger. [Obs.] --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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danger
n 1: the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury; "you
are in no danger"; "there was widespread danger of
disease" [ant: safety]
2: a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or
injury; "he saw the rewards but not the risks of crime";
"there was a danger he would do the wrong thing" [syn: risk,
peril]
3: a cause of pain or injury or loss; "he feared the dangers of
traveling by air"
4: a dangerous place; "He moved out of danger"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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42 Moby Thesaurus words for "danger":
dangerous ground, desultoriness, emergency, exigency, hazard,
in danger of, infirmity, insecurity, insolidity, instability,
insubstantiality, jeopardy, menace, pass, peril, perilousness,
precariousness, precipice, risk, riskiness, shakiness, shiftiness,
shiftingness, slipperiness, speculativeness, thin ice, threat,
ticklishness, treacherousness, treachery, unauthenticity,
unauthoritativeness, undependability, unfaithworthiness,
unreliability, unsolidity, unsoundness, unsteadfastness,
unsteadiness, unsubstantiality, unsureness, untrustworthiness
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
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DANGER, n.
A savage beast which, when it sleeps,
Man girds at and despises,
But takes himself away by leaps
And bounds when it arises.
Ambat Delaso
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