threaten

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Taking risks
adventurer
all in
be skating on thin iceidiom
bet the farm/ranchidiom
broke
compromise
expose
gamble
have/put your head on the blockidiom
hazard
high wire
high-stakes
jeopardize
put your neck on the lineidiom
re-expose
risk
run the risk of doing somethingidiom
sail
sail close to the windidiom
skate

imperil | American Dictionary

imperil
verb[ T ]
 fmlus/ɪmˈper·əl/
to put something or someone in danger:
Withdrawing the medical team would imperil the effort to control the spread of malaria.

Examples of imperil

imperil
Their sense of self-and often their very lives-have been imperiled; they describe themselves as survivors of a "shipwreck" (p. 73).
By failing to recognize his knowledge limitations, the utopian engineer imperils his position.
There seemed no safe place to lodge her and her arrest could imperil the rest.
A sense of something imperiled was the hallmark of conservative culture.
To stray from this code is to imperil salvation, and to risk exclusion from the community of the saved.
This situation absolutely imperils our already tenuous claim to professional status' (p. 379).
To the extent that we emphasize the embeddedness of behavior in multifaceted context, we imperil our ability to produce parsimonious models.
These practices will, among other things, imperil macroeconomic stability.
Thus, the street cleaners' slogan constitutes an appeal: not reducing the number of ditched cans imperils the event's future.
Both options are costly; however, displays of weakness also enhance a perception of vulnerability and therefore imperil the legitimacy enjoyed by the state.
As the boat sets out, the current and wind rise and a ferocious storm imperils the boat.
Believing that a confrontational, mobilizational and polarizing approach would imperil prospects for a democratic transition, they pursued a cautious path.
This indeterminacy, in turn, complicates, impedes, and often imperils his theological discourse.
As a category, it imperils or degrades the artist's own categorization by typing that artist as someone whose base material needs debase their artistry and integrity.
For most theoretical and practical purposes, we are justified in concluding that the identity of a legal system is not imperiled by the open-endedness of some of its frontiers.
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