danger — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Synonyms

   peril

   Examples

   There's plenty of danger in the desert.

   Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars.

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   The Owl is flying high, frightening to the eye. The Rattler is nearby, Cool is on the fly. Danger is his business.

   We determined that the car driver’s transportation of multiple teen passengers, limited driving experience, and likely impairment from effects of cannabis at the time of the crash adversely affected her judgment of the danger of entering the intersection in front of the approaching combination vehicle.

   Huntingdon's ferocity makes the reaction of staff all the more brave. To move towards danger when others are fleeing is the definition of bravery in my book. To place yourself in danger to protect others.

2. An instance or cause of likely serious harm.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

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   1st September 1884, William Gladstone, Second Midlothian Speech Two territorial questions […] unsettled […] each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe.

3. Mischief.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Obsolete
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with.

4. The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide.

5. Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Obsolete
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   You stand within his danger, do you not?

   Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.

6. Liability.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Obsolete
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.

7. Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Obsolete
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   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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   I shall make danger, sure.

8. A contemptible person, especially one seen as perverted or mentally ill.

   Usage

   • UK usage
   • Countable
   • Derogatory
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   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"

Verb

1. To claim liability.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

2. To imperil; to endanger.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

   Examples

   The sides o'th' world may danger. Much is breeding

3. To run the risk.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

Noun

1. the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury

   Antonyms

   safety

   Broader terms

   conditionstatus

   Examples

   you are in no danger

   there was widespread danger of disease

2. a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury

   Synonyms

   riskperil

   Broader terms

   venture

   Examples

   he saw the rewards but not the risks of crime

   there was a danger he would do the wrong thing

3. a cause of pain or injury or loss

   Broader terms

   causal agentcausecausal agency

   Examples

   he feared the dangers of traveling by air

4. a dangerous place

   Broader terms

   areacountry

   Examples

   He moved out of danger