endangerverb [ T ]
uk/ɪnˈdeɪn.dʒər/us/ɪnˈdeɪn.dʒɚ/to put someone or something at risk or in danger of being harmed, damaged, or destroyed:
He would never do anything to endanger the lives of his children.
We must be careful not to do anything that might endanger the economic recovery.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Taking risks
- a drowning man will clutch at a straw idiom
- a leap in the dark idiom
- adventurer
- ante
- be skating on thin ice idiom
- dare
- expose
- have/put your head on the block idiom
- hazard
- imperil
- jeopardize
- lay
- lay sth on the line idiom
- neck
- run the risk of doing sth idiom
- sail close to the wind idiom
- skate
- stick (sth) out
- stick your neck out idiom
- stunt
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