Definition of Peril

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Definition of Peril
	Peril Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction. To expose to danger; to hazard; to risk; as, to peril one's life. To be in danger. Related Definitions: As, Be, Danger, Destruction, Expose, Exposure, Hazard, In, Injury, Jeopardy, Life, Loss, Of, One, Or, Peril, Person, Property, Risk, To

Peril Quotations

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
Sun Tzu

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
Charles de Gaulle

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Voltaire

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
George W. Bush

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S. Truman

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.
Joan Of Arc

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry A. Kissinger

Peril Translations

peril in Danish is fare
peril in Dutch is onraad, nood, gevaar, perikel
peril in Finnish is vaara
peril in French is danger
peril in German is Risiko, riskieren, Gefahr
peril in Hungarian is veszedelem
peril in Italian is pericolo
peril in Norwegian is fare
peril in Portuguese is perigo
peril in Spanish is peligro

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