Danger

/ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒə/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury.
2. An instance or cause of likely serious harm.
3. (obsolete) Mischief.
4. (mainly outside US, rail transport) The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").
5. (obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
6. (obsolete) Liability.
7. (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.
8. (UK, derogatory) A contemptible person, especially one seen as perverted or mentally ill.

Example Sentences

There's plenty of danger in the desert.

Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars.

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.

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

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

The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide.

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Word Forms

• dangers
• dangering
• dangered

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