imperilformal

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

endanger | American Dictionary

endanger
verb[ T ]
us/ɪnˈdeɪn·dʒər/
to put someone or something in a situation in which it is likely to be harmed, damaged, or destroyed:
Revealing that information might endanger our national security.

endangered

adjectiveus/ɪnˈdeɪn·dʒərd/

Examples of endanger

endanger
The poor often have access to endangered ecosystems precisely because the ecosystems are not valuable commercially.
If the accessibility of blood transfusions decreases, the voluntary blood donor might turn away, endangering blood safety much more.
Without enjoying diplomatic immunity and often endangering themselves and their families, they undertook a huge effort in the area of human-rights preservation.
However, all the already encysted metacercariae would be protected and therefore survive to sustain the endangered population.
Placed between these possibilities, humans are endangered from out of destining.
Also, the presence of infection can very rapidly endanger the lives of those waiting faithfully in the queue for their treatment.
However, very little information is available on their biology and ecology, rendering it difficult to develop suitable conservation programmes for these endangered species.
Targeted nations are those which conduct commercial shrimp fishing operations within the geographic range of distribution of endangered sea turtles.
Strikes that cause inconvenience (even severe inconvenience) to others are quite different from strikes that endanger individual or communal lives or health.
Overall, endangered species are likely to have greatly reduced long-term evolutionary potential compared with non-endangered species.
Homologous oocytes, however, are not easily available in some species, such as endangered wild animals and the human.
Thus, dreams tend to represent even happiness in the light of the possible threats that might endanger it.
Offering formal training for teaching, which implied that women needed to be taught to teach, endangered this understanding of femininity.
These are the tokens that are most endangered by the high dress, as they are then distinguished neither in acoustic space, nor by length.
The problem was that the traditional policy had been endangered by the ideological developments of the 1840s, abroad and at home.
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