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danger

Roget category 665

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.2. Subservience to ends

#665. Danger

noun

danger, peril, insecurity, jeopardy, risk, hazard, venture, precariousness, slipperinessinstability etc. 149defenselessness etc. adj., exposure etc. (liability) 177vulnerabilityvulnerable point, heel of Achillesforlorn hope etc. (hopelessness) 859.
[Dangerous course] leap in the dark etc. (rashness) 863road to ruin, faciles descensus Averni [Lat.] [Vergil], hairbreadth escape.
cause for alarmsource of danger etc. 667.
rock ahead [Approach of danger], breakers aheadstorm brewingclouds in the horizon, clouds gatheringwarning etc. 668alarm etc. 669.
[Sense of danger] apprehension etc. 860.

verb

be in danger etc. adj. — be exposed to danger, run into danger, incur danger, encounter danger etc. n. — run a risklay oneself open to etc. (liability) 177lean on a broken reed, trust to a broken reedfeel the ground sliding from under one, have to run for ithave the chances against one, have the odds against one, face long oddsbe in deep trouble, be between a rock and a hard place.
hang by a thread, tottersleep on a volcano, stand on a volcanosit on a barrel of gunpowder, live in a glass house.
bring in danger, place in danger, put in danger, place in jeopardy, put in jeopardy etc. n. — endanger, expose to danger, imperiljeopard, jeopardizecompromisesail too near the wind etc. (rash) 863.
adventure, risk, hazard, venture, stake, set at hazardrun the gauntlet etc. (dare) 861engage in a forlorn hope.
threaten danger etc. 909run one hardlay a trap for etc. (deceive) 545.

adjective

in danger etc. n. — endangered etc. v. — fraught with dangerdangerous, hazardous, perilous, parlous, periculousunsafe, unprotected etc. (safe, protect) etc. 664insecure.
untrustworthybuilt upon.
sand, on a sandy basiswildcat.
defenseless, fenceless, guardless, harborless unshieldedvulnerable, expugnable, exposedopen to etc. (liable) 177.
aux abois [Fr.], at bayon the wrong side of the wall, on a lee shore, on the rocks.
at stake, in questionprecarious, critical, ticklishslippery, slippyhanging by a thread etc. v. — with a halter round one's neckbetween the hammer and the anvil, between Scylla and Charybdis, between a rock and a hard place, between the devil and the deep blue sea, between two fireson the edge of a precipice, on the brink of a precipice, on the verge of a precipice, on the edge of a volcanoin the lion's den, on slippery ground, under firenot out of the wood.
unwarned, unadmonished, unadvised, unprepared etc. 674off one's guard etc. (inexpectant) 508.
tottering unstable, unsteadyshaky, top-heavy, tumbledown, ramshackle, crumbling, waterloggedhelpless, guidelessin a bad wayreduced to the last extremity, at the last extremitytrembling in the balancenodding to its fall etc. (destruction) 162.
threatening etc. 909ominous, illomenedalarming etc. (fear) 860explosive.
adventurous etc. (rash) 863, (bold) 861.

phrase

incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim [Lat.]nam tua res agitur paries dum proximus ardet [Lat.].

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