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Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury.countableuncountable
- There's plenty of danger in the desert.
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An instance or cause of likely serious harm.countableuncountable
- 1st September 1884, William Gladstone, Second Midlothian Speech Two territorial questions […] unsettled […] each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe.
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Mischief.countableobsoleteuncountable
- We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with.
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The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").countableuncountable
- The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide.
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Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.countableobsoleteuncountable
- You stand within his danger, do you not?
- Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.
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Liability.countableobsoleteuncountable
- Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.
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Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.countableobsoleteuncountable
- They of Coloyne made grete daunger to lete passe the oost thrughe the Cite at brydge.
- I made daunger of it a while at first, but afterward beyng persuaded by them..I promised to do as they would haue me.
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A contemptible person, especially one seen as perverted or mentally ill.UKcountablederogatory
- Pineapple and pizza. ONLY JOKING YOU FUCKING DANGER.
- Why did the chicken cross the road? "To try and get away from you, you absolute danger. I've heard all about you posh boy Etonians and farmyard animals"
syn. adventure · danger · distress · harm's way · peril · jeopardy · extremity · threat · menace · hazard
ant. safety · secureness · security