adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dangerous/hazardous/perilous journey
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They set off on the dangerous journey down the river.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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So much worse, so much more perilous , because of the winter.
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And once they made it to the frontier of engineering, the trek to a degree would be even more perilous .
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It could become complex, more perilous .
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Life here, I could see, was going to be on an even more perilous tightrope than it was in Britain.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a perilous mountain road
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Blondin soon became famous as a rope-dancer. Nothing was too perilous for him to attempt.
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Refugees cross the rugged San Ysidro mountains, and it is always a perilous trip.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A perilous leap to the edge was followed by a difficult scramble over slimy rock faces.
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But much more sorry that you have behaved in such an improper and perilous way.
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It was a most perilous enterprise, but everything for him depended on it.
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Louis in Conestoga wagons and traveled across the vast, perilous country in search of a better life in the West.
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Nationalism - from Prague to Paris, from Berlin to Budapest - is a potent, perilous brew.
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No feat was too perilous for him to attempt.
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The gnarled tree trunks-white mulberry and rich brown acacia-formed a perilous and nearly impenetrable net.
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They forgot Mary, forgot everything except their own perilous plight.