Synonyms for perilled
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : per-uh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛr əl |
Top 10 synonyms for perilled Other synonyms for the word perilled
- adventure
- alarm
- bad-eye
- be careless
- be caught short
- beard
- blight
- brave
- browbeat
- bully
- chance
- chance it
- chill
- compromise
- confront
- cop out
- dare
- defy danger
- discredit
- dishonor
- encounter
- explode
- expose
- expose to danger
- face
- gamble
- go out of one's depth
- hang by a thread
- hazard
- impend
- implicate
- jeopard
- jeopardy
- lay on the line
- lay open
- lean on
- leap before looking
- leave defenseless
- leave in the middle
- leave open
- leave to luck
- loom
- lower
- make liable
- make vulnerable
- meet
- menace
- overhang
- peril
- play into one's hands
- play with fire
- plunge
- portend
- push around
- put at risk
- put heat on
- put in danger
- put in harm's way
- put in jeopardy
- put on the spot
- put under suspicion
- risk
- run the chance
- run the risk
- scare
- scare hell out of
- sell out
- skate on thin ice
- speculate
- spoil
- spook
- stake
- stick one's neck out
- subject to
- subject to loss
- tackle
- take a flyer
- take a header
- take a plunge
- take on
- take the liberty
- tempt fate
- terrorize
- threaten
- torment
- venture
- wager
- weaken
- whip around
Définition of perilled
Origin :- c.1200, from Old French peril "danger, risk" (10c.), from Latin periculum "an attempt, trial, experiment; risk, danger," with instrumentive suffix -culum and element also found in experiri "to try," cognate with Greek peria "trial, attempt, experience," empeiros "experienced," Old Irish aire "vigilance," Gothic ferja "watcher," Old English fær "danger, fear" (see fear (n.)).
- As in jeopardize : verb endanger
- As in menace : verb bother, frighten
- As in risk : verb take a chance
- As in compromise : verb put in jeopardy
- As in endanger : verb put in jeopardy
- As in expose : verb subject to danger
- As in imperil : verb cause to be in danger
- I say must, the very instant his life would not be perilled by the attempt.
- Extract from : « Fairy Fingers » by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Night after night he has perilled his own life to come here.
- Extract from : « Vera » by Oscar Wilde
- Thou sayest, Gurth, that all should not be perilled on a single battle.
- Extract from : « Harold, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- For this cowardly creature the Somauli policeman had perilled his life.
- Extract from : « Cumner & South Sea Folk, Complete » by Gilbert Parker
- Never before did so much seem to have been won, because never before did so much seem to have been perilled.
- Extract from : « The Coward » by Henry Morford
- He perilled everything, while they staked only their lives and their property.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 » by Various
- Were that of all my ancestors in my veins, I would have perilled it in this quarrel.'
- Extract from : « Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete » by Sir Walter Scott
- Discovery would not only have perilled my own life, but also have involved those of my kind protectors.
- Extract from : « Arthur O'Leary » by Charles James Lever
- You had perilled your soul in damning them all in turn; and now it comes out, that you are the "enfant chri" of the establishment.
- Extract from : « Arthur O'Leary » by Charles James Lever
- He had perilled his life, and a few feet of common earth was all the reward that death allotted to him.
- Extract from : « History of the Anglo-Saxons » by Thomas Miller
Antonyms for perilled
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