endangeren‧dan‧ger /ɪnˈdeɪndʒə $ -ər/ ●○○ verb [transitive] 
Smoking during pregnancy endangers your baby’s life.—endangerment noun [uncountable] law: charges of child endangerment
VERB TABLE
endanger
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | endanger |
| he, she, it | endangers | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | endangered |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have endangered |
| he, she, it | has endangered | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had endangered |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will endanger |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have endangered |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am endangering |
| he, she, it | is endangering | |
| you, we, they | are endangering | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was endangering |
| you, we, they | were endangering | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been endangering |
| he, she, it | has been endangering | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been endangering |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be endangering |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been endangering |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Any raid or rescue operation would endanger the lives of the hostages.
- If unemployment continues to rise, social stability may be endangered.
- Smoking during pregnancy can endanger your baby's health.
- The city authorities complained that low-flying aircraft were endangering public safety.
- The pilot refused to endanger the lives of his passengers by making an unscheduled landing.
- The U.S. was unwilling to do anything that might endanger the alliance with Japan.
- Aid agencies still fear that crop substitution projects will endanger the lives of their staff.
- But engineers concluded that even a complete failure of the non-critical, rubber O-ring would not endanger the lives of shuttle astronauts.
- He says what endangered species conflicts are really all about is a lack of planning.
- In the parable of Jonah, the prophet's disobedience stirs up the deep to endanger the lives of his fellow seafarers.
- It stretches your resources and endangers your ability to continue and to invest in new opportunities for your business.
- Sticking with an employee who breaks his little toe is one thing; keeping timeservers who endanger profitability is another.
- The fewer sent, the fewer would be endangered.
Longman Language Activatorto put someone else in a dangerous situation
formal: endanger someone's life/health/safety etc to put someone in a dangerous situation that would badly affect their health, safety etc: · Smoking during pregnancy endangers your baby's health.· The city authorities complained that low-flying aircraft were endangering public safety.· Any raid or rescue operation would endanger the lives of the hostages.
to put someone in a dangerous situation in which they could be killed, especially by not obeying safety rules: · If an ambulance crew goes on strike, it is putting people's lives at risk.· By not dealing with the problem of radioactive waste, we are putting the lives of future generations at risk.
to cause risks to do something that makes it more likely that someone or something will be harmed: · The pilot has been accused of putting his passengers' lives at risk.· Development in the wetlands will put the environment and wildlife habitats at risk.put sb/sth at risk of: · Some people carry a gene that puts them at greater risk of certain cancers.
to make it likely that something bad will happen to someone or something: · A severe drought is threatening the rice crop.· According to some scientists, global warming threatens the survival of the whole human race.
to put someone or something in a dangerous or harmful situation: · The U.S. was unwilling to do anything that might endanger the alliance with Japan.· The pilot refused to endanger the lives of his passengers by making an unscheduled landing.· If unemployment continues to rise, social stability may be endangered.
also put/place something in jeopardy to do something that increases the risk that something good will be harmed or lost: · A scandal like this might jeopardize his political career.· The breaking of the ceasefire has put the whole peace process in jeopardy.seriously jeopardize: · The country's economic future is seriously jeopardized by the mass emigration of young people.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Smoking during pregnancy endangers your baby’s life.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Smoking during pregnancy endangers your baby’s life. (=cause danger to your health)· Being overweight endangers your health.
· They wanted to capture the gunman without endangering the lives of his hostages.
(=used about a species of which there are very few still alive, so that it may soon not exist)· The park is a sanctuary for 41 endangered species.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· Campaigners along the 50-mile proposed route also fear the 400,000-volt cable could endanger health, spoil the landscape and devalue property.· But that is no reason to neglect the risks that continue to endanger public health as a result of fraud or recklessness.· The contamination could endanger the health of tens of thousands of people.· This gap between children's knowledge about what endangers their health and how they use this knowledge is largely uncharted territory.
· They have also pleaded not guilty to causing the explosion and possessing explosives with intent to endanger life.· But engineers concluded that even a complete failure of the non-critical, rubber O-ring would not endanger the lives of shuttle astronauts.· In the parable of Jonah, the prophet's disobedience stirs up the deep to endanger the lives of his fellow seafarers.· Second, Christians have a responsibility not to use their freedom to endanger their own spiritual lives.· Detonated Jones, of Kremlin Drive, Tuebrook, admitted causing an explosion likely to endanger life.· I would never play him if I thought it was any point that would endanger his life.· The boy was also charged with arson with intent to endanger life in connection with an incident at Chesterfield library on Monday.· Findings include: Some 600 million people live in urban areas where the average level of sulphur dioxide pollution endangers their lives.
· He had also quickly grasped that the islanders would do nothing to endanger the safety of Sycorax.
· The board is responsible for releasing documents on the 1963 Kennedy assassination that do not endanger national security.
· More importantly, perhaps, they represent the Return of the Director, an endangered species rarely glimpsed in recent years.· It is not believed that any endangered species are at risk from the fire.· However monkey, chimpanzee and many other rare and endangered species are plundered from the forest and killed for food.· Mr Pinkerton brilliantly succeeds in convincing the reader that big government is an endangered species.· Others, sipping coffee, were assembling giant puppets of bears, dolphins and other endangered species.· He says what endangered species conflicts are really all about is a lack of planning.· Their numbers became so depleted in this country that in 1969 they were placed on the endangered species list.· As a result of anti-pollution laws, some companies have become endangered species. 14.
VERB· People who otherwise consider individual responsibility the pinnacle of virtue seem unable to perceive an individual responsibility to protect an endangered planet.· One smart thing these sisters did was lay down the burden of protecting the endangered black man.· Great economic sacrifices have been made by developers, loggers and fishermen to protect endangered species.· She says the actions are necessary to protect the endangered winter-run salmon.
WORD FAMILYadjectiveendangereddangerousnoundangerverbendangeradverbdangerously
to put someone or something in danger of being hurt, damaged, or destroyed: Smoking during pregnancy endangers your baby’s life.—endangerment noun [uncountable] law: charges of child endangerment