PERIL


Meaning of PERIL in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

fraught

Though tantalisingly seductive, they were fraught with peril .

No matter where you begin, the road to the Final Four is fraught with peril .

That undertaking would be fraught with enormous peril too.

And the road is long and fraught with peril .

They were demonstrating that life on the Web is fraught with peril .

great

It is not civil war that is the greatest peril but anarchy.

But Lugar calls nuclear terror the greatest peril of our age.

yellow

But the yellow peril of Mrs Slocombe's hairdo caused a problem for the dynamic of the show.

■ VERB

ignore

Were voices from the dark yet knowing part of oneself, voices you ignored only at your peril .

He spoke with the sort of quietly threatening tone that you ignored at your peril .

Mourning can have a therapeutic function that we ignore at our peril .

Similarly, lessons from across the world show that early warning signs of conflict are ignored at our peril .

The Shuttle/Redgrove thesis states that periods have meaning, and we ignore it at our peril .

The Phillips curve was regarded as an inescapable constraint on policy action which the authorities could only ignore at their peril .

Politicians espouse it; government departments ignore it at their peril .

He ignores them at his peril .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

None of us who set off on that calm September morning could have foreseen the perils that lay ahead.

the perils of a life at sea

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But Lugar calls nuclear terror the greatest peril of our age.

Elizabeth continued reading her latest library book, oblivious to my possible peril .

Great perils lay before them, and some of them paid with their lives for drinking that peerless elixir.

His playoff streak is in peril this season.

Into this potent politicization of what remained, at heart, a medical mystery, scientists ventured at their peril .

Mourning can have a therapeutic function that we ignore at our peril .

Similarly, lessons from across the world show that early warning signs of conflict are ignored at our peril .

The differences exist, and we remain ignorant of them at our peril .

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