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Hazardous vs Imperil - What's the difference?

hazardous | imperil |

As an adjective hazardous

is risky, dangerous, with the nature of a hazard.

As a verb imperil is

to put into peril; to place in danger or cause a hazard.

hazardous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Risky, dangerous, with the nature of a hazard.
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  • (rfc-sense) Exposing to loss or evil.
  • Of or involving chance.

    • Derived terms

    * hazardously * ultrahazardous

    imperil

    English

    Verb

    (British) (en-verb) (US)
  • To put into peril; to place in danger or cause a hazard.
    • "Boating and fishing groups contend that the 130 [wind energy] towers would be a navigation hazard and offshore construction would imperil the fisheries." — "Wind Out of Their Sails", Jeffrey Winters, p. 31, Mechanical Engineering , June 2006
  • To risk.

    • Related terms

    * imperilment