| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | per·il |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  p r  l |
| NOUN: | 1a. Imminent danger. b. Exposure to the risk of harm or loss. 2. Something that endangers or involves risk. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: per·iled also per·illed, per·il·ing, per·il·ling, per·ils, per·ils
To expose to danger or the chance of injury; imperil. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French, from Latin per culum. See per-3 in Appendix I.
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