Imperil

Definition: Imperil

Imperil

Verb

1. Pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops".

Date "imperil" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Note: Imperil \Im*per"il\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Imperiledor Imperilled; present participle verb or noun Imperiling or Imperilling.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Imperil

Synonyms: endanger (v), jeopardise (v), jeopardize (v), menace (v), peril (v), threaten (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Danger	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).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Imperil

English words defined with "imperil": Emperil, Expone ♦ Imperiled, Imperiling, Imperilled, Imperilling ♦ Jeopard. (references)

Specialty definitions using "imperil": Sovereign Risk. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The mortal danger : how misconceptions about Russia imperil America (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Christian Nevell Bovee	Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Worker Rights	Senegal	Under the Constitution approved in January, the right to strike may not imperil the companies involved; however, this provision was not tested by year's end. (references)
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	But complacency or self-congratulation can imperil our security as much as the weapons of tyranny.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Imperil" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Imperil" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	88.89%	24	71,196
Lexical Verb (base form)	11.11%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	27	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "imperil": re-imperil.
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Language		Translations for "imperil"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vë në rrezik (hazard), rrezikoj (adventure, chance, endanger, gamble, go off the deep end, jeopard, jeopardize, oppose, risk, venture). (various references)

Arabic		‏وقع في الخطر, ‏عرض للخطر (endanger, jeopard, jeopardize, menace, peril, risk). (various references)

Bulgarian		застрашавам (menace, threaten), излагам на опасност (endanger, jeopard, jeopardize, peril). (various references)

Czech		ohrozit (compromise smb., endanger, jeopard, jeopardize). (various references)

Farsi		درمخاطره انداختن , بخطرانداختن (Hazard, Risk). (various references)

Finnish		saattaa vaaranalaiseksi (endanger, expose to danger), panna alttiiksi (expose, risk). (various references)

French		mettre en péril, mettre en danger. (various references)

German		gefährden (endanger, jeopardize, put at risk, threaten, to jeopardize). (various references)

Greek		θέτω εισ κίνδυνον (peril), διακινδυνεύω (be in jeopardy, chance, compromise, endanger, hazard, jeopardize, take a risk, take the plunge). (various references)

Hebrew		לסכן (endanger, jeopardize, menace, risk, stake, threaten). (various references)

Hungarian		veszélyeztet (adventure, damage, endanger, harass, hazard, jeopard, jeopardize, menace, peril, risk, to compromise, to hazard, to imperil, to jeopardize, to menace). (various references)

Indonesian		membencanakan, membahayakan (endanger, jeopardize, threatent). (various references)

Italian		mettere in pericolo (endanger). (various references)

Manx		cur ayns gaue (compromise, hazard, risk), cur ayns danjeyr (jeopardize). (various references)

Norwegian		utsette for fare. (various references)

Pig Latin		imperilay.(various references)

Portuguese		imperialista (imperialist, imperialistic), pôr em perigo (endangered species, jeopard, jeopardize, threaten), expor (account, carry forth, converse, create, demonstrate, disclose, enunciate, exhibit, explicate, expose, expound, feature, lay open, produce, propone, propraetor, put, report, represent, set up, show, speak, spread, spread out, state, subject, turn up), arriscar (chance, commit, dare, endanger, hazard, jeopard, jeopardize, pawn, perilous, risk, stick one's neck out, venture). (various references)

Romanian		pune în primejdie (jeopardize), primejdui (endanger, jeopardize, peril, risk), periclita (compromise, endanger, jeopardize). (various references)

Russian		подвергать опасности (endanger, jeopard, jeopardize, put in jeopardy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		izložiti opasnosti, ugroziti (endanger, jeopardize, menace, threaten). (various references)

Spanish		poner en peligro (endanger, hazard, jeopard, jeopardize). (various references)

Swedish		äventyra (adventure, compromise, endanger, hazard, jeopard, jeopardize, risk, venture). (various references)

Turkish		tehlikeye sokmak, tehlikeye atmak (adventure, endanger, hazard, jeopardize, lay on the line, pawn, peril, put at risk, put in jeopardy, put on the line, risk, set, stake, venture). (various references)

Ukranian		піддавати небезпеці. (various references)

Welsh		peryglu (endanger). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "imperil": imperiled, imperiling, imperilled, imperilling, imperilment, imperilments, imperils. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Imperil" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Imcera, impail, impera, imperal, impere, impereal, impered, imperile, imperio. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "imperil" (pronounced i'mpe"rul)
5	-p e" r u l	apparel, peril.
4	-e" r u l	Beryl, feral, sterile.
3	-r u l	amoral, ancestral, antiviral, astral, aural, auroral, austral, Balmoral, barrel, boral, Carle, Carol, carrel, cathedral, central, cerebral, choral, coral, floral, gambrel, goral, immoral, integral, intramural, laurel, Loral, minstrel, mistral, mitral, moral, mural, neural, neutral, nostril, octahedral, oral, orchestral, plural, quarrel, rural, scoundrel, several, Sorel, Sorrel, spiral, tetrahedral, ventral, vertebral, viral, virile.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-i-l-m-p-r"
	-1 letter: limier, limper, prelim, rimple.
	-2 letters: impel, miler, peril, pilei, plier, prime, primi.
	-3 letters: emir, impi, lier, lime, limp, lipe, lire, liri, merl, mile, mire, miri, peri, perm, pier, pile, pili, plie, prim, riel, rile, rime, ripe.
	-4 letters: elm, imp, ire, lei, lie, lip, mel, mil, mir, per, pie, rei, rem, rep, rim, rip.
	-5 letters: el, em, er, li, me, mi, pe, pi, re.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-i-l-m-p-r"
	+1 letter: dimplier, imperial, imperils, limpsier, pimplier, prelimit.
	+2 letters: amplifier, empirical, imperials, imperiled, prelimits, puerilism, reptilium, slimpsier.
	+3 letters: amplifiers, impartible, impearling, imperially, imperiling, imperilled, limitrophe, multiplier, pilgrimage, prelimited, puerilisms, shrimplike, simplifier.
	+4 letters: empirically, imperialism, imperialist, imperilling, imperilment, imperiously, imprecisely, impressible, marlinspike, milliampere, multipliers, palmistries, peristomial, permissible, permissibly, pilgrimaged, pilgrimages, planimetric, pleinairism, preliminary, prelimiting, primalities, primitively, recompiling, simplifiers, spermicidal, unempirical.
	+5 letters: epileptiform, heliotropism, hyperlipemia, hyperlipemic, imperatively, imperatorial, imperialisms, imperialists, imperilments, imperishable, imperishably, imperviously, impressively, marlinespike, marlinspikes, milliamperes, multipartite, multipicture, necrophilism, nonempirical, oversimplify, permeability, permissively, pleinairisms, poikilotherm, polarimetric, polymerising, polymerizing, postimperial, preamplifier, reimplanting, semitropical, thermophilic.
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