imperilformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Taking risks
adventurer
all in
be skating on thin iceidiom
bet the farm/ranchidiom
broke
dare
expose
hazard
high wire
high-stakes
imperil
jeopardize
lay
re-expose
risk
run the risk of doing somethingidiom
sail
sail close to the windidiom
skate
sniper's alley

Examples of endangering

endangering

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

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.
It does so at the cost of transferring demographic risks to pensioners, but without endangering the basic subsistence function of the pensions.
Both are important goods, and endangering them would compromise our policy recommendations.
At the same time, however, it results in a great increase in inbreeding level of the purged population, endangering the long-term potential of adaptation.
In this context, production systems should be designed to permit crossbreeding without endangering the parent indigenous straightbreds.
Can this drawback be remedied without endangering the national existence?
He would replace the endangering word by the first word that would occur to him.
He would make, instead, silly modifications in the text: substitute less dangerous words or clauses for any endangering part of speech.
Local suppliers and distributors feared the loss of markets to large utilities and the endangering of environmentally friendly combined heat and power schemes.
In a linked system, the stress may appear at any part endangering the whole.
To increase the purging effect without endangering the survival, efforts should be made to intensify selection and reduce drift if possible.
Such children's basic needs are not adequately met, thus endangering their well-being and development.
On the contrary, the government was capable of maintaining its interests without endangering the legitimacy of the system.
Physicians employed at the attending or staff physician level cannot strike by collectively withholding care without potentially endangering patients.
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