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Dangerous and Danger Definitions

Dangerous

Involving or filled with danger; perilous.

Danger

Exposure or vulnerability to harm or risk.

Dangerous

Being able or likely to do harm.

Danger

A source or an instance of risk or peril.

Dangerous

Full of danger.
Railway crossings without gates are highly dangerous.
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Danger

(Obsolete) Power, especially power to harm.

Dangerous

Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.

Danger

Exposure to likely harm; peril.
There's plenty of danger in the desert.

Dangerous

In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.

Danger

An instance or cause of likely harm.
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Dangerous

Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us;The ways are dangerous.
It is dangerous to assert a negative.

Danger

(obsolete) Mischief.

Dangerous

Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
If they incline to think you dangerousTo less than gods.

Danger

The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").
The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide.

Dangerous

In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.

Danger

(obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.

Dangerous

Hard to suit; difficult to please.
My wages ben full strait, and eke full small;My lord to me is hard and dangerous.

Danger

(obsolete) Liability.

Dangerous

Reserved; not affable.

Danger

(obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.

Dangerous

Involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm;
A dangerous criminal
A dangerous bridge
Unemployment reached dangerous proportions

Danger

(obsolete) To claim liability.

Dangerous

Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm;
A dangerous operation
A grave situation
A grave illness
Grievous bodily harm
A serious wound
A serious turn of events
A severe case of pneumonia
A life-threatening disease

Danger

(obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.

Danger

(obsolete) To run the risk.

Danger

Authority; jurisdiction; control.
In dangerhad he . . . the young girls.

Danger

Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.
You stand within his danger, do you not?
Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in dangerof this statute.

Danger

Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.

Danger

Difficulty; sparingness.

Danger

Coyness; disdainful behavior.
Those rich man in whose debt and danger they be not.

Danger

To endanger.

Danger

The condition of being susceptible to harm or injury;
You are in no danger
There was widespread danger of disease

Danger

A venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury;
He saw the rewards but not the risks of crime
There was a danger he would do the wrong thing

Danger

A cause of pain or injury or loss;
He feared the dangers of traveling by air

Danger

A dangerous place;
He moved out of danger

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