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Danger

//ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒə(ɹ)// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Exposure to likely harm; peril. countable, uncountable

    "There's plenty of danger in the desert."

  2. 2
    a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury wordnet
  3. 3
    An instance or cause of likely harm. countable, uncountable

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

  4. 4
    a dangerous place wordnet
  5. 5
    Mischief. countable, obsolete, uncountable

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

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  1. 6
    the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury wordnet
  2. 7
    The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger"). countable, uncountable

    "The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide."

  3. 8
    a cause of pain or injury or loss wordnet
  4. 9
    Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "You stand within his danger, do you not?"

  5. 10
    Liability. countable, obsolete, uncountable

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

  6. 11
    Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "They of Coloyne made grete daunger to lete passe the oost thrughe the Cite at brydge."

  7. 12
    A contemptible person, especially one seen as perverted or mentally ill. UK, countable, derogatory, uncountable

    "Pineapple and pizza. ONLY JOKING YOU FUCKING DANGER."

Verb
  1. 1
    To claim liability. obsolete
  2. 2
    To imperil; to endanger. obsolete

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

  3. 3
    To run the risk. obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English daunger (“power, dominion, peril”), from Anglo-Norman dangier, from Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin *dominārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”). Displaced native Old English frēcennes.

Etymology 2

From Middle English daunger (“power, dominion, peril”), from Anglo-Norman dangier, from Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin *dominārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”). Displaced native Old English frēcennes.

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