DANGER
risk, peril, danger
(noun) a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury; “he saw the rewards but not the risks of crime”; “there was a danger he would do the wrong thing”
danger
(noun) a dangerous place; “He moved out of danger”
danger
(noun) the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury; “you are in no danger”; “there was widespread danger of disease”
danger
(noun) a cause of pain or injury or loss; “he feared the dangers of traveling by air”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
danger (countable and uncountable, plural dangers)
Exposure to likely harm; peril.
An instance or cause of likely harm.
(obsolete) Mischief.
(mainly outside US, rail transport) The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").
(obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
(obsolete) Liability.
(obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
(obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
Synonyms
• See also danger
Verb
danger (third-person singular simple present dangers, present participle dangering, simple past and past participle dangered)
(obsolete) To claim liability.
(obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
(obsolete) To run the risk.
Anagrams
• Gander, Garden, gander, garden, grande, graned, nadger, ranged
Source: Wiktionary
Dan"ger, n. Etym: [OE. danger, daunger, power, arrogance, refusal,
difficulty, fr. OF. dagier, dongier (with same meaning), F. danger
danger, fr. an assumed LL. dominiarium power, authority, from L.
dominium power, property. See Dungeon, Domain, Dame.]
1. Authority; jurisdiction; control. [Obs.]
In dangerhad he . . . the young girls. Chaucer.
2. Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty. [Obs.] See In
one's danger, below.
You stand within his danger, do you not Shak.
Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in dangerof this statute.
Robynson (More's Utopia).
3. Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk;
insecurity.
4. Difficulty; sparingness. [Obs.] Chaucer.
5. Coyness; disdainful behavior. [Obs.] Chaucer. In one's danger, in
one's power; liable to a penalty to be inflicted by him. [Obs.] This
sense is retained in the proverb, "Out of debt out of danger."
Those rich man in whose debt and danger they be not. Robynson (More's
Utopia).
– To do danger, to cause danger. [Obs.] Shak.
Syn.
– Peril; hazard; risk; jeopardy.
– Danger, Peril, Hazard, Risk, Jeopardy. Danger is the generic
term, and implies some contingent evil in prospect. Peril is instant
or impending danger; as, in peril of one's life. Hazard arises from
something fortuitous or beyond our control; as, the hazard of the
seas. Risk is doubtful or uncertain danger, often incurred
voluntarily; as, to risk an engagement. Jeopardy is extreme danger.
Danger of a contagious disease; the perils of shipwreck; the hazards
of speculation; the risk of daring enterprises; a life brought into
jeopardy.
Dan"ger, v. t.
Definition: To endanger. [Obs.] Shak.
DANG
Dang,
Definition: imp. of Ding. [Obs.]
Dang, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Ding.]
Definition: To dash. [Obs.]
Till she, o'ercome with anguish, shame, and rage, Danged down to hell
her loathsome carriage. Marlowe.
DING
Ding, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dinged, Dang (Obs.), or Dung (Obs.); p. pr.
& vb. n. Dinging.] Etym: [OE. dingen, dengen; akin to AS. dencgan to
knock, Icel. dengja to beat, hammer, Sw. dänga, G. dengeln.]
1. To dash; to throw violently. [Obs.]
To ding the book a coit's distance from him. Milton.
2. To cause to sound or ring. To ding (anything) in one's ears, to
impress one by noisy repetition, as if by hammering.
Ding, v. i.
1. To strike; to thump; to pound. [Obs.]
Diken, or delven, or dingen upon sheaves. Piers Plowman.
2. To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the
mountain echoes. W. Irving.
3. To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster.
[Low]
Ding, n.
Definition: A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition