peril

peril is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.
2. transitive verb. To expose to danger; to hazard; to risk; as, to peril one's life.
3. intransitive verb. To be in danger.
4. noun. 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"

   Synonyms: danger, risk

5. noun. a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune

   "drinking alcohol is a health hazard"

   Synonyms: endangerment, hazard, jeopardy, risk

6. noun. a state of danger involving risk

   Synonyms: riskiness

7. verb. put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

   Synonyms: endanger, expose, queer, scupper

8. verb. pose a threat to; present a danger to

   "The pollution is endangering the crops"

   Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, threaten

Synonyms

danger, risk, endangerment, hazard, jeopardy, riskiness, endanger, expose, queer, scupper, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, threaten

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in peril:

piler, plier

Common word forms

perils, periled, periling, perilled, perilous, perilless, perilling

Words from these letters

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