imperiled in English

verb

1

put at risk of being harmed, injured, or destroyed.

white-band disease imperils coral reefs

synonyms: endanger, jeopardize, risk, put in danger, put in jeopardy, expose to danger, hazard, threaten, pose a threat to, peril

verb

• endanger, jeopardize, risk, put in danger, put in jeopardy, expose to danger, hazard, threaten, pose a threat to, peril
• jeopardize, peril, threaten, menace, endanger

Use "imperiled" in a sentence

1. Godly qualities are imperiled by improper sexual desires.

2. Before many others aboard an imperiled ship, he called Jehovah “the God to whom I belong.”

3. Once widespread in Ozark floodplains, Canebrakes are now imperiled ecosystems, reduced to less than 2% of former range

4. SYDNEY, Australia — Scientists have again sounded the alarm about Australia’s imperiled Great Barrier Reef, saying that by the 2030s it could see devastating mass Bleachings as often as every

5. But when Laos arrested nine young North Korean defectors on May 10, and then China acceded to their forced return, it may have imperiled a key underground transit route' leaving North Koreans on the run with even fewer places to hide.

6. Rotid surgery, short-term electric carotid Baroreceptor stimu-lation lowered blood pressure.13 Finally, the particularly severe hypertension of an imperiled patient improved sub-stantially after implantation of the device.1 The mechanisms by which electric carotid sinus field stimulation affects blood pressure in human subjects are unknown.