Endanger vs Dangerous - What's the difference?
endanger | dangerous |
To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.
* 1593, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona
* Burke
* 1877, Louisa May Alcott, Under the Lilacs
(obsolete) To incur the hazard of; to risk; to run the risk of.
* Francis Bacon
Full of danger.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:If they incline to think you dangerous / To less than gods
In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
(lb) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
*(Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
*:My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; / My lord to me is hard and dangerous .
(lb) Reserved; not affable.
*(Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
*:Of his speech dangerous
As a verb endanger
is to put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.As an adjective dangerous is
full of danger.endanger
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Alternative forms
* endaunger (obsolete) * indangerVerb
(en verb)- I hold him but a fool that will endanger / His body [in a duel] for a girl that loves him not
- All the other difficulties of his reign only exercised without endangering him.
- If you endanger other people's life and liberty in your pursuit of happiness, I shall have to confiscate your arms, boys.
- He that turneth the humours back endangereth malign ulcers.
Synonyms
* See alsodangerous
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Adjective
(en-adj)- Forby. Bartlett.
