Peril vs Death - What's the difference?
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A situation of serious and immediate danger.
Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
(insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
To cause to be in danger; to imperil.
* 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. XIV:
*:"I will have nothing to do with this matter, whatever it is. Do you think I am going to peril my reputation for you?"
The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too..
*1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Ch.I:
*:"‘Death ,’" quoted Warwick, with whose mood the undertaker's remarks were in tune, "‘is the penalty that all must pay for the crime of living.’"
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
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(lb) The collapse or end of something.
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As a noun peril
is peril, danger.As a proper noun death is
the personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.peril
English
Noun
(en noun)- The perils of the jungle (animals and insects, weather, etc)
Synonyms
* danger, hazard, jeopardy, risk, threat, wathe * See alsoDerived terms
* yellow perilVerb
(en verb)Anagrams
* ----death
English
(wikipedia death)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Philip J. Bushnell
Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, passage=Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* accidental death * angel of death * at death's door * Black Death * brain death * cause of death * cell death * civil death * clinical death * cot death * dance of death * dead * deadly * death adder * death angel * death bell * death benefit * death by burning * death by fire * death camas * death camp * death cap * death certificate * death chair * death chamber * death cross * death cup * death drive * death duty * death growl * death house * death instinct * death knell * death march * death mask * death metal * death penalty * death phase * death put * death rate * death rattle * death ray * death roll * death row * death seat * death sentence * death spiral * death squad * death stick * death tax * death to * death toll * Death Valley * death warrant * death wish * death's-head * deathbird * deathblow * deathful * deathless * deathlike * deathly * deathmatch * deathsman * deathward * deathwatch * deathy * fan death * heat death * human death * infant death * instadeath * kiss of death * life-and-death * life-or-death * like death warmed over * living death * megadeath * near-death * put to death * screen death * sentence to death * sudden death * sudden infant death syndrome * valley of death * violent death * voodoo death * wrongful death (lookfrom)See also
* afterlife * die * the big one * the big sleep * cemetery * early grave * funeral * graveyard * morgue * mortal * mortician * mortuary * obituary * tombstone * cremationExternal links
*The Definition of Death- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy