imperil

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   formal: to put a person, thing, or undertaking at serious risk of harm, loss, or destruction

   Cutting the safety checks would imperil both the workers and the project.

Formed in the late sixteenth century from im-, the assimilated form of in- ("into"), + peril: literally, "to put into peril." Peril came through Old French from Latin periculum ("trial, risk, danger").

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