Danger vs Danker - What's the difference?
danger | danker |
(obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In one's danger, below.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
(obsolete) Liability.
* 1526 , Bible , tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:
(obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
(obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
(obsolete) A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.
Exposure to liable harm.
An instance or cause of liable harm.
Mischief.
(obsolete) To claim liability.
(obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
(obsolete) To run the risk.
* Oxford English Dictionary
(dank)
dark, damp and humid.
* Milton
* Trench
(figuratively) highly potent
As a noun danger
is ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In one's danger, below.As a verb danger
is to claim liability.As an adjective danker is
comparative of dank.danger
English
Noun
(en noun)- "You stand within his danger , do you not?" (Shakespeare, ''Merchant of Venice'', 4:1:180)
- Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.
- Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.
- (Chaucer)
- (Chaucer)
- "Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars" ((William Hazlitt), ''Table talk'').
- "Two territorial questions..unsettled..each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe" (''Times'', 5 Sept. 3/2).
- "We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with" (Shakespeare, ''Julius Caesar'', 2:1:17).
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* kicking in dangerVerb
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* (English Citations of "danger")References
Anagrams
* ----danker
English
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
* * * * *dank
English
Adjective
(er)- The dank cave was chilly and spooky.
- Now that the fields are dank and ways are mire.
- Cheerless watches on the cold, dank ground.
- That was very dank marijuana.