endangeredadjective
uk/ɪnˈdeɪn.dʒəd/us/ɪnˈdeɪn.dʒɚd/in danger of being harmed, lost, unsuccessful, etc.:
Social workers who look after abused or endangered children often have stressful days at work.
the endangered contracts of failing competitors
endangered birds/plants/species
B2 animals or plants that may soon not exist because there are very few now alive
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unsafe and insecure
- at stake idiom
- be on the line idiom
- day
- exposed
- hang
- indefensible
- insecure
- jeopardy
- precarious
- precariously
- shadow
- sketchy
- stake
- struggle
- threat
- unattended
- unbalanced
- unguarded
- unsafe
- unstable
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Examples from literature
- Haller Park in Kenya is an animal sanctuary, a place where endangered animals are protected.
- Its shell is also very beautiful, making it a prize for zoos and private animal collections – and putting it on the list of endangered or nearly endangered species.
- Poachers often kill endangered animals.
- Some people pay a lot of money for endangered animals – for example, $20,000 for the horns of a bighorn sheep.
- The Kemp’s ridley species, only found near a small coastal area in Mexico, is the most endangered sea turtle species in the world.
- The two students also found that some markets sold endangered fish labeled as other fish.
- They are endangered animals, and we must help them.
- This can help endangered animals.