danger.
Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury.
Meaning & usage
Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury.
There's plenty of danger in the desert.
An instance or cause of likely serious harm.
Mischief.
The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").
The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide.
Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
Liability.
Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.
A contemptible person, especially one seen as perverted or mentally ill.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English daunger (“power, dominion, peril”), from Anglo-Norman dangier, from Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin *dominiārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”). Displaced native Old English frēcennes.
To claim liability.
To imperil; to endanger.
To run the risk.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English daunger (“power, dominion, peril”), from Anglo-Norman dangier, from Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin *dominiārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”). Displaced native Old English frēcennes.
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