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Peril vs Lurking - What's the difference?

peril | lurking |

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

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peril

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A situation of serious and immediate danger.
  • Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
  • The perils of the jungle (animals and insects, weather, etc)
  • (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
  • Synonyms

    * danger, hazard, jeopardy, risk, threat, wathe * See also

    Derived terms

    * yellow peril

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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?"
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    lurking

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who lurks.
  • * 2011 , Christine Chism, Alliterative Revivals (page 99)
  • 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.