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US
/ˈdeɪndʒɝ/
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[ UK /dˈeɪndʒɐ/ ]
[ UK /dˈeɪndʒɐ/ ]
NOUN
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the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury
you are in no danger
there was widespread danger of disease -
a cause of pain or injury or loss
he feared the dangers of traveling by air -
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 -
a dangerous place
He moved out of danger
How To Use danger In A Sentence
- He asked me bluntly, ‘Why would you want to leave private life and take on such a difficult, dangerous and probably thankless job?’
- Going upmarket, I can go into Dear Soup except on busy days, as the tables are a bit close together and sitting beside a slurper is an ever-present danger. A table for one | 世論 What Japan Thinks
- That which is soft and effeminate, which is calculated to excite the passions, by multitudes of ambiguous expressions, (not the less dangerous for being so cloaked) should be considered by Christians as an abuse the more deplorable, as it has even been censured and condemned by the pagans. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
- He added: 'I consider them insidious and extremely dangerous. Times, Sunday Times
- If you buy into the grave danger proposed exception to jl, I wonder how drunk the guy has to be to constitue grave danger. The Volokh Conspiracy » Chief Justice Roberts Dissents from Denial of Fourth Amendment Case — Again
- The goal to attack the spiralling cost of public services may be laudable, but the precedent is dangerous.
- He expressed his racial hatred for everyone, especially OBama making veiled death threats, spoke of other dangerous topics etc … and then offered to sell me a mosser rifle as he was buying a a whole shippment of them. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
- Having obtained the metacentric height, reference to a diagram will at once show the whole range of stability; and this being ascertained at each loading, the stowage of the cargo can be so adjusted as to avoid excessive stiffness in the one hand and dangerous tenderness on the other. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
- The danger in Iraq is repeating the biggest mistake - yielding to gradualism.
- Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
