danger
sustantivoverbocorriente en diálogos
- Reino Unido//ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒə//
- Estados Unidos//ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒɚ//
- Australia//ˈdæɪn.d͡ʒə//
Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury.
sustantivo
- 1
Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury.
There's plenty of danger in the desert.
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars.
The Owl is flying high, frightening to the eye. The Rattler is nearby, Cool is on the fly. Danger is his business.
We determined that the car driver’s transportation of multiple teen passengers, limited driving experience, and likely impairment from effects of cannabis at the time of the crash adversely affected her judgment of the danger of entering the intersection in front of the approaching combination vehicle.
- 2
An instance or cause of likely serious harm.
1st September 1884, William Gladstone, Second Midlothian Speech Two territorial questions […] unsettled […] each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe.
- 3
obsoletoMischief.
We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with.
- 4
The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").
The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide.
- 5
obsoletoAbility to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
You stand within his danger, do you not?
Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.
- 6
obsoletoLiability.
Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.
- 7
obsoletoDifficulty; sparingness; hesitation.
They of Coloyne made grete daunger to lete passe the oost thrughe the Cite at brydge.
I made daunger of it a while at first, but afterward beyng persuaded by them..I promised to do as they would haue me.
I shall make danger, sure.
- 8
A contemptible person, especially one seen as perverted or mentally ill.
Pineapple and pizza. ONLY JOKING YOU FUCKING DANGER.
Why did the chicken cross the road? "To try and get away from you, you absolute danger. I've heard all about you posh boy Etonians and farmyard animals"
Etimología
From Middle English daunger (“power, dominion, peril”), from Anglo-Norman dangier, from Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin *dominiārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”). Displaced native Old English frēcennes.
verbo
- 1
obsoletoTo claim liability.
- 2
obsoletoTo imperil; to endanger.
The sides o'th' world may danger. Much is breeding
- 3
obsoletoTo run the risk.
Formas
- plural
- dangers
- pasado
- dangered
- participio
- dangered
- gerundio
- dangering
- 3.ª persona del singular
- dangers
danger · Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury.
dangerous · Full of danger.dangerously · In a dangerous manner; so as to cause danger.dangling · Suspended from above.