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imperil

/im-per-uhl/US // ɪmˈpɛr əl //UK // (ɪmˈpɛrɪl) //

危害,危害性,威胁,危急关头

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    im·per·iled, im·per·il·ing or im·per·illed, im·per·il·ling.

    • : to put in peril or danger; endanger.

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Examples

  • The prospect of such a fall-out—which had been a looming prospect for years—raised the possibility of a sudden stop or delays to daily trading across the border into France, that could even imperil supplies of fresh food and medicines.

  • All along the migration routes, people are changing the landscape in ways that imperil birds.

  • They generate less anxiety in students, for example — an important factor to consider at a time when the pandemic is already imperiling young people’s mental health.

  • In the Caribbean, ocean acidification and swelling seas are driving coral reefs toward extinction and imperiling fishing and tourism.

  • They also fear that the plan could imperil hopes of reopening middle and high schools by next semester, since many staff members being reassigned are critical to crafting reopening plans.

  • You want less concentration in banking—at least the type that will screw the little guy and imperil the economy?

  • But the Israelis all but explicitly spurning peace will grievously imperil their own country.

  • The goal should be to enable that flow without allowing undue systemic risk and greed to imperil it.

  • Romney warned that a second Obama term would “remake” the Supreme Court and imperil the future of gun rights.

  • A meltdown at the plant could imperil tens of thousands of citizens, especially children and pregnant women.

  • He did not wish to imperil Alan's superb aloofness by involving him in the acrimonious and undignified defence of a friend.

  • The honey, I say, would imperil the grubs' lives, The Bee must therefore first be made to disgorge.

  • In those of which we are speaking a too strong light seems to imperil the success of the experiment.

  • All she thought was to get away—far away from these men who were trying to imperil her immortal soul.

  • Her former efficient commander, Captain Coxetter, has gone where bars or rough waters never imperil his safety.