Danger

Definition: Danger

Danger

Noun

1. The condition of being susceptible to harm or injury; "you are in no danger"; "there was widespread danger of disease".

2. 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".

3. A cause of pain or injury or loss; "he feared the dangers of traveling by air".

4. A dangerous place; "He moved out of danger".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "danger" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Danger \Dan"ger\, noun. [Old English danger, daunger, power, arrogance, refusal, difficulty, from Old French dagier, dongier (with same meaning), French danger danger, from an assumed Late Latin dominiarium power, authority, from Latin dominium power, property. See Dungeon, Domain, Dame.]. (references)

Satire

Dream Interpretation

Public Administration

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Danger

Alarm

Noun: alarm; alarum, larum, alarm bell, tocsin, alerts, beat of drum, sound of trumpet, note of alarm, hue and cry, fire cross, signal of distress; blue lights; war-cry, war-whoop; warning; fogsignal, foghorn; yellow flag; danger signal; red light, red flag; fire bell; police whistle.

Ambush

Pitfall; (source of danger); trap; (snare).

Courage

Verb: be courageous; Adjective: dare, venture, make bold; face danger, front danger, affront danger, confront danger, brave danger, defy danger, despise danger, mock danger; look in the face; look full in the face, look boldly in the face, look danger in the face; face; meet, meet in front; brave, beard; defy.

Noun: courage, bravery, valor; resoluteness, boldness; Adjective: spirit, daring, gallantry, intrepidity; contempt of danger, defiance of danger; derring-do; audacity; rashness; dash; defiance; confidence, self-reliance.

Danger

Verb: be in danger; Adjective:; be exposed to danger, run into danger, incur danger, encounter danger; Noun: run a risk; lay oneself open to; (liability); lean on a broken reed, trust to a broken reed; feel the ground sliding from under one, have to run for it; have the chances against one, have the odds against one, face long odds; be in deep trouble, be between a rock and a hard place.

Threaten danger; run one hard; lay a trap for; (deceive).

Noun: danger, peril, insecurity, jeopardy, risk, hazard, venture, precariousness, slipperiness; instability; defenselessness; Adjective: exposure; (liability); vulnerability; vulnerable point, heel of Achilles; forlorn hope; (hopelessness).

Cause for alarm; source of danger. rock ahead, breakers ahead; storm brewing; clouds in the horizon, clouds gathering; warning; alarm.

Bring in danger, place in danger, put in danger, place in jeopardy, put in jeopardy; Noun: endanger, expose to danger, imperil; jeopard, jeopardize; compromise; sail too near the wind; (rash).

Adjective: in danger; Noun: endangered; Verb: fraught with danger; dangerous, hazardous, perilous, parlous, periculous; unsafe, unprotected; (safe, protect; );insecure. untrustworthy; built upon.sand, on a sandy basis; wildcat.

Disease

Weakly, weakened; (weak); decrepit; decayed; (deteriorated); incurable; (hopeless); in declining health; cranky; in a bad way, in danger, prostrate; moribund; (death).

Liability

Adjective: liable, subject; in danger; open to, exposed to, obnoxious to; answerable; unexempt from; apt to; dependent on; incident to.

Rashness

Verb: be rash; Adjective: stick at nothing, play a desperate game; run into danger; play with fire, play with edge tools.

Safety

Noun: safety, security, surety, impregnability; invulnerability, invulnerableness; Adjective:; danger past, danger over; storm blown over; coast clear; escape; means of escape; blow valve, safety valve, release valve, sniffing valve; safeguard, palladium.

Adjective: safe, secure, sure; in safety, in security; on the safe side; under the shield of, under the shade of, under the wing of, under the shadow of one's wing; under cover, under lock and key; out of danger, out of the woods, out of the meshes, out of harm's way; unharmed, unscathed; on sure ground, at anchor, high and dry, above water; unthreatened, unmolested; protected; Verb: cavendo tutus; panoplied; (defended).

Crosswords: Danger

French (acute, acuteness, danger, fear, hazard, jeopardy, peril).

Full of darkness and danger they were And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

We've analyzed their attack, sir, and there is a danger. Should I have your ship standing by (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas)

When danger reared his ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.)

Is it raining? Is it snowing? Is a hurricane a-blowing? Not a speck of light is showing so the danger must be growing (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl)

Your request is not unlike your lower intestine: stinky and loaded with danger. (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls; writing credit: Steve Oedekerk)

Ride into the Danger Zone (Danger Zone; performing artist: Kenny Loggins)

The best part is danger staring you in the face (You Gotta Be; performing artist: Des'ree)

I've had enough of danger (One More Try; performing artist: George Michael)

When there's danger all about ("Theme From Shaft"; performing artist: Isaac Hayes)

Oh my goodness, danger, trouble, dread, (Code Red; performing artist: Prince)

Call to Danger (1973)

Fly Into Danger (1972)

Danger Point (1971)

A Clear and Present Danger (1970)

Danger pour la société (1970)

Danger Zone (performing artist: Kenny Loggins)

Danger (Been Down So Long) (performing artist: Mystikal)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Danger on Vampire Trail (His Hardy Boys Mystery Stories, 50) (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Danger Mouse: Public Enemy No. 1 (Vol. 2) (reference)

• Danger Mouse: Trouble With Ghosts (Vol. 1) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Cross the Danger Line (reference)

• Danger Danger (reference)

• Enter the Danger Brigade (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Danger Girl (reference)

• Jurassic Park 3 Danger Zone (reference)

• Nancy Drew Stay Tuned for Danger Deluxe (reference)

• Nancy Drew: Stay Tuned for Danger (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Boys wading in stream in Puerto Rico despite sign on bank: "Danger - There is Bilharzia." Schistosomiasis. Credit: CDC.

The Bronze Star Medal eligibility criteria was limited with the Fiscal 2001 National Defense Authorization Act passed by Congress. The Medal will be limited to those people receiving imminent danger pay. (Photo illustration by Virginia Reyes).

Signs warning residents and tourists about the danger on the forest and surrounding area. Credit: USDA.

A sign strategically placed to remind residents and visitors of extreme fire danger. Credit: USDA.

... the health visitor is pointing out the danger of drying a nappy before the fire ... / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Philip Boucas..

Danger de s'approcher du cadre renfermant les rateliers mécaniques, s'ouvrant et se fermant tout seuls. / Cham [i.e. Amédée Noé]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

"The irrespressible conflict" Or the Republican barge in danger. Credit: Library of Congress.

A danger signal. Credit: Library of Congress.

He grasped the bit of silver and signaled, danger and come up. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ther's jes one thing that's in danger o' sappin' th' mainsprings o' th' Republic ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But in the other case, my life not being in danger, I may have the benefit of appealing to the law, and have reparation for my 100l. (Second Treatise of Government)

Clause 3: No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay. (reference)

Amendment V. No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. (reference)

Germany shall be bound to take suitable measures to remove any obstacle or danger to navigation, and to ensure the maintenance of good conditions of navigation. (reference)

Now I come to the second danger of these two marauders which threatens the cottage, the home, and the ordinary people - namely, tyranny. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The danger, however, was at present so unperceived, that they did not by any means rank as misfortunes with her.

Let me illustrate these last two forms of danger, from my own experience

Those who followed him were evidently thrown off his track, and Jean Valjean believed himself out of danger.

A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms

The King enacts more wonders than a man, Daring an opposite to every danger.

The danger is here, for two men are not as lonely and perplexed as one.

The natives came by degrees to be less apprehensive of any danger from me.

Weather this danger and you are safe, for the rest of the way is down hill

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Their biggest danger is chicken pox which can be deadly. (references)

The greatest potential danger posed by AVMs is hemorrhage. (references)

Immune cells, once alerted to danger, undergo important changes. (references)

Business

Terrorism is no longer a danger in major Peruvian cities, although terrorist groups continue to carry out sporadic activities in remote areas. (references)

The primary objective of all these systems is to reduce the concentration of infectious microorganisms so that the waste no longer poses a danger to public health and safety. (references)

Children

Guatemala

According to Casa Alianza, drugs, prostitution, and gangs posed the greatest danger to this vulnerable group during the year. (references)

Korea

In 1997 a senior UNICEF official said that approximately 80,000 children in North Korea were in immediate danger of dying from hunger and disease; 800,000 more were suffering from malnutrition to a serious but lesser degree. (references)

Mozambique

The UNDP assisted the Government with training police to aid child prostitutes; however, there is a lack of accommodation centers, and the Government is unable to offer safe shelter to child prostitutes when they have been removed from danger. (references)

Civil Liberties

Morocco

Offending publications may be declared a danger to state security and seized, the publisher's license suspended, and equipment destroyed. (references)

Turkmenistan

Two registered NGO's that had experienced legal difficulties and were in danger of being closed by the Government early in 2000 had resolved their legal disputes by year's end. (references)

Colombia

The authorities normally do not interfere with public meetings and demonstrations and usually grant the required permission except when they determine that there is imminent danger to public order. (references)

Economic History

Albania

The Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the potential danger of travel to Albania. (references)

The Netherlands

A tight labor market and firming inflation add to the danger of overheating of the economy. (references)

Ukraine

Short term portfolio capital flight is no longer a danger, and the valuation levels of the national currency are adequate. (references)

Human Rights

Italy

The reform package contained provisions addressing problems raised in society by the continuing danger of organized crime. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

Human rights groups alleged abuse of detention orders in cases in which the accused did not pose a clear danger to society. (references)

Germany

Bail exists but seldom is employed; the usual practice is to release detainees unless there is clear danger of flight outside the country. (references)

Indigenous People

Guatemala

The culture of another very small ethnic group, the Xinca of southeastern Guatemala, was also in danger of extinction. (references)

Political Economy

Yemen

The next day, in response to information that the lives of the hostages were in imminent danger, government forces attempted a rescue operation. (references)

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Should it be determined upon inspection that hazardous conditions exist in the workplace, the worker is absolved for refusing to comply with an order that would have placed him or her in danger. (references)

Trade

Argentina

Certain products of in danger species are prohibited from exporting. (references)

Australia

Australia has stringent prohibitions and quarantines imposed against a number of products, particularly those considered to be of potential public danger and agricultural products that are considered to have the potential to introduce pests or disease. (references)

Finland

If warranted by safety considerations or economic security of the consumer, the following information should also be included on the retail packaging or otherwise clearly identified on the product: contents of the product, care instructions, operating instructions, and a warning of possible danger related to the use or disposal of the product. (references)

Travel

Albania

The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the potential danger of travel to Albania. (references)

Liberia

The presence of many ill-trained and armed government security personnel continues to constitute a potential danger. (references)

Women

Somalia

While U.N. agencies and NGO's have made intensive efforts to educate persons about the danger of FGM, no reliable statistics are available on the success of their programs. (references)

Worker Rights

Afghanistan

Some of these practices exposed children to the danger of landmines. (references)

Poland

The age requirement rises to 18 years if a particular job might pose a health danger. (references)

Netherlands

Local governments have initiated in-school campaigns to warn girls of the danger of loverboys. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Increase of danger

Rescued from danger

Expressions using "danger": alert to a danger ♦ avalanche danger ♦ be fraught with danger ♦ be heedless of danger ♦ be in danger ♦ be out of danger ♦ be unaware of danger ♦ clear and present danger ♦ danger area ♦ danger arrow ♦ danger close ♦ danger in delay ♦ danger line ♦ danger money ♦ danger od explosion ♦ danger of fire ♦ danger of life ♦ danger of the war ♦ danger signal ♦ danger to life ♦ danger zone ♦ death danger ♦ expose oneself to danger ♦ face danger ♦ fraught with danger ♦ get into danger ♦ have a sense of impending danger ♦ hidden danger ♦ in danger ♦ in danger of ♦ in danger of one's life ♦ In one's danger ♦ out of danger ♦ past danger ♦ potential danger ♦ public danger ♦ reckless of the danger ♦ regardless of danger ♦ reported danger ♦ run into danger ♦ scoff at a danger ♦ scoff at danger ♦ sense danger ♦ source of danger ♦ threaten danger ♦ To do danger ♦ To make danger ♦ unseen danger ♦ warn smb. of a danger. Additional references.

Beginning with "danger": danger-can, danger-filled, danger-fraught, danger-free, danger-made, danger-man, danger-money, danger-spots, danger-zone.

Ending with "danger": stranger-danger.

Albanian

rrezik (chance, distress, fear, hazard, imminence, impendence, jeopardy, menace, peril, risk, riskiness). (various references)

Arabic 

‏خطر (adventurous, advise, awkward, challenge, come, critical, dangerous, embargo, fear, give smb. notice, hazard, importance, jeopardy, parlous, peril, perilous, poisonous, prohibition, proscription, risk, risky, unhealthy). (various references)

Basque

arrisku. (various references)

Bulgarian 

опасност (fear, jeopardy, menace, peril, risk, shoal, threat), опасно за живота, заплаха (imminence, impendence, menace, threat, thunderbolt). (various references)

Catalan

perill (peril). (various references)

Chinese 

險 (europium, rugged), 患 (misfortune, suffer, to contract, trouble, worry), 危险 (Dangerous, Hazard, Peril, Perilous, risky), 危險 (dangerous), 危 (to endanger). (various references)

Czech

nebezpeèí (hazard, jeopardy, menace, peril, risk), životu nebezpeèno. (various references)

Danish

fare (go, peril, ride, travel). (various references)

Dutch

gevaar (peril). (various references)

Esperanto

danĝero (peril), danĝereco. (various references)

Farsi 

خطر (Hazard, Jeopardy, Peril, Risk). (various references)

Finnish

vaara (hazard, hill, jeopardy, peril, risk). (various references)

French

danger. (various references)

Frisian

gefaar (peril). (various references)

German

Gefahr (endangerment, hazard, jeopardy, peril, pitfall, risk, threat). (various references)

Greek 

κίνδυνος (hazard). (various references)

Hebrew 

סכון (endangering, hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk, venture), סכנה (hazard, jeopardy, menace, peril, threat). (various references)

Hungarian

veszély (distress, hazard, imminence, jeopardy, lion in the path, lion in the way, menace, peril, risk). (various references)

Icelandic

hætta (peril). (various references)

Indonesian

kegawatan (criticalness, gravity), bahaya (hazard, jeopardy, peril). (various references)

Irish

dainséar (peril), guais (peril), gÚbh (peril), contúirt (peril), baol (peril). (various references)

Italian

pericolo (distress, endangerment, hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

薄氷 (thin ice), 危険性 (riskiness), 危険　 (hazard, peril), 危険 (hazard, peril), 危難 (distress, hazard, peril), 危殆 (distress, jeopardy), 危害　 (harm, injury), 危害 (harm, injury). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きたい (anticipation, curious, distress, expectation, fuselage, gas, hope, jeopardy, queer, rare, strange, strange or odd posture or figure, uncommon, vapour), きがい (harm, injury, steepness of a mountain, strong spirit), きなん (distress, hazard, peril), きけんせい (riskiness), きけん (abstain from voting, atmosphere, distinguished person, hazard, peril, renunciation of a right), うすごおり (thin ice), はくひょう (blank ballot, thin ice, white ballot). (various references)

Korean 

위험 (Hazard, risk). (various references)

Malay

bahaya (peril). (various references)

Manx

geiyaght, gaue (distress, jeopardy, peril, risk), danjeyr (peril), cryggyl (peril). (various references)

Norwegian

fare (hazard, jeopardy, peril). (various references)

Occitan

dangièr. (various references)

Papiamen

peligro (peril), peliger (peril). (various references)

Pig Latin

angerday.(various references)

Polish

niebezpieczeństwo (peril). (various references)

Portuguese

perigo (difficulty, hazard, jeopardy, menace, peril, risk, threat). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

perigo. (various references)

Romanian

primejdie (jeopard, jeopardy, risk), prãpãdenie (damage, destruction, ruin), pericol (menace, risk). (various references)

Russian 

угроза (commination, fulmination, imminence, menace, threat), опасность опасный, опасность (jeopardy, menace, narrow shave, near shave, peril, riskiness). (various references)

Scottish

cunnart (peril, risk). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

opasnost (death trap, deathtrap, distress, jeopardy, menace, peril, risk). (various references)

Spanish

peligro (distress, eradication, hazard, jeopardy, nastiness, peril, riskiness). (various references)

Swahili

hatari (peril). (various references)

Swedish

fara (drive, emergency, go, hazard, jeopardy, leave, menace, peril, ride, risk, threat, travel, wander, warning), våda (misadventure, peril). (various references)

Tagalog

pangánib (peril). (various references)

Turkish

tehlikeli (adventurous, breakneck, dangerous, daring, forbidding, hairy, hazardous, noxious, parlous, perilous, pestilent, pestilential, risky, touch and go, unsafe, venturesome, wildcat), tehlike (distress, emergency, hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk, shoal, storm cloud, threat), tehlíke (peril), tehdit (intimidation, jawbone, menace, threat, threatening). (various references)

Turkmen 

howp. (various references)

Ukrainian

ризик (adventure, chance, die, hazard, peril, risk), небезпека (imminence, jeopardy, menace, peril), загроза (impendence, menace, threat). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự nguy hiểm (peril, perilousness, risk), mối hiểm nghèo nguy cơ. (various references)

Welsh

perygl (peril, risk), enbydrwydd (jeopardy, peril). (various references)

Zulu

inngozi (peril). (various references)

periculum. (various references)

frecennis, pleoh. (various references)

dangier. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "danger": dangered, dangering, dangerous, dangerously, dangerousness, dangerousnesses, dangers. (additional references)

Words ending with "danger": endanger. (additional references)

Words containing "danger": endangered, endangering, endangerment, endangerments, endangers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Danger" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adalgar, dager, dagnaw, Dagner, dagnet, dagr, dagre, Dainfern, D'alger, danager, dangar, dange, Dangu, danje, danser, danver, danwear, Dauger, daunger, Denegri, Dengra, dilger, dingem, dingen, dingor, Dongbei, donger, dsnger, dungee, Dwangwa, Edinger, Fagner, tanger. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gander, garden, ranged.

-1 letter: anger, denar, grade, grand, raged, range, redan, regna.

-2 letters: aged, ager, dang, dare, darn, dean, dear, drag, dreg, earn, egad, gaed, gaen, gane, gear, gnar, grad, gran, nard, near, nerd, rage, rand, rang, read, rend.

-3 letters: age, and, ane, are, dag, den, ear, end, eng, era, erg, ern, gad, gae, gan, gar, ged.

+1 letter: angered, dangers, dangler, deraign, derange, dragnet, enraged, ganders, gardens, gnarled, gnarred, gradine, grained, grandee, grander, granted, grenade, groaned, pranged, reading.

+2 letters: adhering, androgen, arranged, bandager, bearding, breading, dangered, danglers, deairing, deraigns, deranged, deranges, derating, dognaper, dragline, dragnets, dragomen, dragonet, drainage, dreading, dreaming, dungaree, endanger, engraved, enlarged, gadarene, gandered, gardened, gardener, gardenia, garnered, gendarme, glanders, gradient, gradines, grandame, grandees, grandest, grandeur, grenades, hangared, jargoned, margined, midrange, organdie, readding, readings, readying, redating, regained, rehanged, renegade, renegado, treading, unargued, underage, ungraced, ungraded, wrangled.