word-vault/dist/data/cards/pe/peril.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "peril",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "serious danger",
            "sensetop": "in perilperil of doing something",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The country's economy is now in grave peril.",
                    "contextForm": "in peril"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The heroine finds herself **in mortal peril**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She seemed blissfully unaware of the peril she was in."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They warned that his life was in imminent peril."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We face the immediate peril of being bought out by another company.",
                    "contextForm": "peril of doing something"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Danger"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["deadly", "dire", "grave"],
                "verb + peril": ["be in", "put something in"],
                "preposition": ["peril of"],
                "phrases": ["at your peril"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the fact of something being dangerous or harmful",
            "sensetop": "peril (of something)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She gave a warning about the perils of drug abuse."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a campaign illustrating the perils of drug abuse"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the great perils facing the environment"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the perils posed by global warming"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Danger"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["great", "immediate", "potential"],
                "verb + peril": ["face", "pose", "highlight"],
                "peril + verb": ["face something"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to warn somebody that if they do something, it may be dangerous or cause them problems",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Teachers ignore the importance of these results at their peril."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ignore these warnings at your peril."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Danger"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈperəl/",
                "audio": "pe/peril/peril__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈperəl/",
                "audio": "pe/peril/peril__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French, from Latin peric(u)lum ‘danger’, from the base of experiri ‘to try’."
}