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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
endanger
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
endanger the life of sb
▪ They wanted to capture the gunman without endangering the lives of his hostages.
endanger your health (=cause danger to your health)
▪ Being overweight endangers your health.
endangered (=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 CORPUS
■ NOUN
health
▪ 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.
life
▪ 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.
safety
▪ He had also quickly grasped that the islanders would do nothing to endanger the safety of Sycorax.
security
▪ The board is responsible for releasing documents on the 1963 Kennedy assassination that do not endanger national security.
species
▪ 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
protect
▪ 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.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 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.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ 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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Endanger

Endanger \En*dan"ger\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Endangered; p. pr. & vb. n. Endangering.]

  1. To put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace.

    All the other difficulties of his reign only exercised without endangering him.
    --Burke.

  2. To incur the hazard of; to risk. [Obs.]

    He that turneth the humors back . . . endangereth malign ulcers.
    --Bacon.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
endanger

late 15c., from en- (1) "make, put in" + danger. Related: Endangered; endangering. Endangered species recorded by 1958.

Wiktionary
endanger

alt. 1 (context transitive English) To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to. 2 (context obsolete transitive English) To incur the hazard of; to risk; to run the risk of. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to. 2 (context obsolete transitive English) To incur the hazard of; to risk; to run the risk of.

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WordNet
endanger

  1. v. pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops" [syn: jeopardize, jeopardise, menace, threaten, imperil, peril]

  2. put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position [syn: queer, expose, scupper, peril]

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Usage examples of "endanger".

Should the weather deteriorate sufficiently to endanger our return flight we have been ordered to make a landing on the airfield near the town of Kalinin.

The Jewish speculations about Angels and Mediators, which at the time of Christ grew very luxuriantly among the Scribes and Apocalyptists, and endangered the purity and vitality of the Old Testament idea of God, were also very important for the development of Christian dogmatics.

Whereas an insurrection exists in the State of Florida, by which the lives, liberty, and property of loyal citizens of the United States are endangered: And whereas it is deemed proper that all needful measures should be taken for the protection of such citizens and all officers of the United States in the discharge of their public duties in the State aforesaid: Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham LINCOLN, President of the United States, do hereby direct the commander of the forces of the United States on the Florida coast to permit no person to exercise any office or authority upon the islands of Key West, the Tortugas, and Santa Rosa, which may be inconsistent with the laws and Constitution of the United States, authorizing him at the same time, if he shall find it necessary, to suspend there the writ of habeas corpus, and to remove from the vicinity of the United States fortresses all dangerous or suspected persons.

Of course, the pile of endangered black caiman carcasses and jaguar pelts found in the village had not helped matters.

Shaddai, and the endangering of the utter ruin of the famous town of Mansoul, set thyself to deface, and utterly to spoil, all the remainders of the law and image of Shaddai that have been found in Mansoul after her deep apostasy from her king to Diabolus, the envious tyrant.

Researches have shown that the proportion of half a drachm of alcohol to the pound weight of the body, is the quantity which usually produces intoxication, and that an increase of this amount to one drachm immediately endangers the life of the individual.

Paris has expressed the opinion that if he goes on dueling for fifteen or twenty years more--unless he forms the habit of fighting in a comfortable room where damps and draughts cannot intrude--he will eventually endanger his life.

Further, you have endangered the blades by the energies unleashed in playing your eggling music.

Austria would not let slip the fair opportunity of taking revenge without endangering herself.

In all the great questions which have agitated the country, and particularly in those fearful crises, the Missouri question, the nullification question, and the late slavery question, as connected with the newly acquired territory, involving and endangering the stability of the Union, his has been the leading and most conspicuous part.

And now it only remains for me to say that I think it is a very grave question for the people of this Union to consider, whether, in view of the fact that this slavery question has been the only one that has ever endangered our Republican institutions, the only one that has ever threatened or menaced a dissolution of the Union, that has ever disturbed us in such a way as to make us fear for the perpetuity of our liberty,--in view of these facts, I think it is an exceedingly interesting and important question for this people to consider whether we shall engage in the policy of acquiring additional territory, discarding altogether from our consideration, while obtaining new territory, the question how it may affect us in regard to this, the only endangering element to our liberties and national greatness.

Alton is endangering his life, or materially impairing his health, I wish it mitigated as far as it can be consistently with his safe detention.

Then let the country give us a hundred thousand new troops in the shortest possible time, which, added to McClellan directly or indirectly, will take Richmond without endangering any other place which we now hold, and will substantially end the war.

Please tell me could you not make me a flying visit for consultation without endangering the Service in your department.

At last advices General Halleck thinks he cannot send reinforcements without endangering all he has gained.