Synonyms of the word

imperil

• v. (transitive) To put into peril; to place in danger or cause a hazard.
• v. (transitive) To risk.

be

• v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
• v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
• v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
• v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
• v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
• v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
• v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
• v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
• v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
• v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
• v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
• v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
• v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

endanger

• v. (transitive) To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To incur the hazard of; to risk; to run the risk of.

exist

• v. to be; have existence; have being or reality.

jeopardise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of jeopardize.

jeopardize

• v. (US) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.

menace

• n. a perceived threat or danger.
• n. the act of threatening.
• n. an annoying and bothersome person.
• v. To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.
• v. To threaten (an evil to be inflicted).
• v. To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize.

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.

threaten

• v. To make a threat against someone; to use threats.
• v. To menace, or be dangerous.
• v. To portend, or give a warning of.
• v. (figuratively) To be close to equaling or surpassing (a record, etc.).