Definizione monolingua

danger

danger (third-person singular simple present dangers, present participle dangering, simple past and past participle dangered)

1. (obsolete) To claim liability.
2. (obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
3. (obsolete) To run the risk.

danger (plural dangers)

1. (obsolete) Ability to harm; someones dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In ones danger, below.

   ""You stand within his danger, do you not?"" (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, 4:1:180)

2. (obsolete) Liability.
   • 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:

     Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.

3. (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
4. (obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
5. (obsolete) A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.
6. Exposure to liable harm.

   ""Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars"" (William Hazlitt, Table talk).

7. An instance or cause of liable harm.

   ""Two territorial questions..unsettled..each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe"" (Times, 5 Sept. 3/2).

8. Mischief.

   ""We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with"" (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 2:1:17).

Definizione dizionario danger

	pericolo
	instance or cause of liable harm
	exposure to liable harm
	A situation that constitutes an immediate risk for injury on a person or property.

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Altri significati:

(obsolete) To run the risk.

(obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.

(obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.

Mischief.

Exposure to liable harm.

An instance or cause of liable harm.

(obsolete) A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.

(obsolete) To claim liability.

(obsolete) Liability.

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

(obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.