Synonyms of the word

endangerment

• n. The act of putting someone into danger, or the condition of being in danger.
• n. (law) The exposure of someone, especially a child, to danger or harm.

danger

• n. (obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In one's danger, below.
• n. (obsolete) Liability.
• n. (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
• n. (obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
• n. (obsolete) A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.
• n. Exposure to liable harm.
• n. An instance or cause of liable harm.
• n. Mischief.
• n. (mainly outside US, rail transport) The stop indication of a signal. (usually used in the phrase "at danger").
• v. (obsolete) To claim liability.
• v. (obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
• v. (obsolete) To run the risk.

hazard

• n. (historical) A type of game played with dice.
• n. Chance.
• n. The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
• n. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
• n. (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
• n. (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing…
• n. (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
• v. To expose to chance; to take a risk.
• v. To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.

jeopardy

• n. Danger of loss, harm, or failure.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To jeopardize; to endanger.

peril

• n. A situation of serious and immediate danger.
• n. Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
• n. (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk.

risk

• n. A possible, usually negative, outcome, e.g., a danger.
• n. The likelihood of a negative outcome.
• n. (Formal use in business, engineering, etc.) The potential (conventionally negative) effect of an event,…
• v. (transitive) To incur risk (of something).
• v. (transitive) To incur risk of harming or jeopardizing.
• v. (transitive) To incur risk as a result of (doing something).