A source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune.
Pose a threat to; present a danger to.
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Examples for "threaten "
Examples for "threaten "
1 We believe a change in course will threaten jobs and deter investment.
2 Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said any new regulation must not threaten jobs.
3 They didn't really threaten us much today but good fighting effort again.
4 Unsanitary conditions would threaten the health of anyone still in the area.
5 For companies, high returns attract new entrants who threaten incumbents' comfortable state.
1 In the last words a hidden menace rang; therefore Powala answered gravely:
2 The £30 million striker was at his superlative best, a constant menace .
3 Ash got a sense of both hope and menace from the image.
4 The menace was in the tone, not the content of his speech.
5 Despite the good humor, a thread of menace had grown among them.
1 But Portugal said last month political uncertainty could endanger the much-needed assistance.
2 MINUSMA urged both sides to refrain from violence that could endanger civilians.
3 The law requires doctors to report information that could endanger women's lives.
4 And he warned the measures will endanger social security and medical provision.
5 Nor does he want to endanger the health of his 71-year-old father.
1 Both Russia and Ukraine say they will not jeopardize supplies to Europe.
2 This situation may jeopardize patient quality of care and increase staff turnover.
3 Taking controversial political stands, particularly progressive ones, would jeopardize these women's jobs.
4 However, overweight is not considered serious enough to jeopardize life as yet.
5 If so, could that jeopardize our future plans to start a family?
1 An extended delay could jeopardise the future of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
2 There are concerns that protests and social unrest may jeopardise fiscal consolidation.
3 This would hinder economic recovery and jeopardise the gains achieved through globalisation.
4 The board ruled against any change that would jeopardise their historic interiors.
5 Break it down and you bruise and jeopardise the flower of life.
1 One or two more defections would imperil Republican control of the Senate.
2 In so doing, these groups imperil the lives and security of millions.
3 You may imperil your own soul by condoning this sin of heresy.
4 You are going to imperil the entire mission for your own lust!
5 He was willing to risk present loss, rather than imperil future peace.
Put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position.
A state of danger involving risk.
1 He is always terrified in the moment of real crisis and peril .
2 It's an innovative financial tool that has great promise and great peril .
3 Your brother may indeed have pinpointed the true peril of Prospero's Children.
4 Be advised, seek safety in the sanctuary; peril cannot reach us there.
5 Tell the truth now, and your soul shall be removed from peril .
6 In dashed the drunken retainer, and Gulielma was once more in peril .
7 The dearest interests of freedom and the Union are in imminent peril .
8 And he knew in one glance the full peril of the situation.
9 The horror of it, the pity of it, the peril of it.
10 Keep away from fever cases and rest; you are in imminent peril .
11 The greater the general peril , the less private needs should be considered.
12 The peril of the town and the lives within it were ignored.
13 He was not dead; he was not even in peril of death.
14 Please tell me of the time you were in the greatest peril .
15 At no point did he remember that the planet was in peril .
16 As a result the OECD's pronouncements should be ignored at our peril .
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