Peril vs Lurking - What's the difference?
peril | lurking |
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 act of one who lurks.
* 2011 , Christine Chism, Alliterative Revivals (page 99)
As nouns the difference between peril and lurking
is that peril is peril, danger while lurking is the act of one who lurks.As a verb lurking is
.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
* ----lurking
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- In these hunting scenes, as many critics have noted, the reversals, negotiations, lurkings , and evasions between hunter and prey mirror and frame the bedroom strategies of the Lady and Gawain.