Fromen- +danger. Displaced nativeOld Englishfrēcnian.
endanger (third-person singular simple presentendangers,present participleendangering,simple past and past participleendangered)
- (transitive) To put (someone or something) indanger; torisk causingharm to.
c.1590–1591 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,(please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):I hold him but a fool that willendanger / His body [in a duel] for a girl that loves him not
1757,Edmund Burke,The Abridgement of the History of England:All the other difficulties of his reign only exercised withoutendangering him.
- 1877, Louisa May Alcott,Under the Lilacs
- If youendanger other people's life and liberty in your pursuit of happiness, I shall have to confiscate your arms, boys.
2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, inRAIL, number948, page42:As he passed though the station, he slowed to yell to the signalman, Frank 'Sailor' Bridges: "Sailor - have you anything between here and Fordham? Where's the mail?" Gimbert knew the mail train was due, and he didn't want toendanger another train with his burning bomb wagon.
- (obsolete, transitive) Toincur thehazard of; to risk; to run the risk of.
1625,Francis [Bacon], “Of Seditions and Troubles”, inThe Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret,→OCLC:He that turneth the humours back[…]endangereth malign ulcers.
to put someone or something in danger
- Bulgarian:излагам на опасност(izlagam na opasnost)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:危害 (zh)(wēihài),危及 (zh)(wēijí),使受危險 /使受危险(shǐ shòu wéixiǎn)
- Czech:ohrozit (cs)
- Dutch:in gevaar brengen
- Finnish:vaarantaa (fi),aiheuttaavaaraa(+ allative)
- French:compromettre (fr),mettre en danger (fr)
- Galician:arriscar (gl)
- German:gefährden (de)
- Hungarian:veszélyeztet (hu)
- Italian:rischiare (it),compromettere (it),mettere in pericolo
- Japanese:脅かす (ja)(obiyakasu),危うくする (ja)(ayauku suru)
- Ladino:rizikar
- Maori:whakamōrea,whakamōrearea
- Old English:frēcnian
- Polish:zagrażać (pl) impf,zagrozić (pl) pf
- Portuguese:perigar (pt)
- Romanian:compromite (ro),periclita (ro),risca (ro),primejdui (ro)
- Russian:подверга́тьопа́сности impf(podvergátʹ opásnosti),подве́ргнутьопа́сности pf(podvérgnutʹ opásnosti)
- Spanish:apeligrar (es)
- Swedish:sätta i fara
- Ukrainian:наразити на небезпеку(narazyty na nebezpeku)
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- ^“endanger”, inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^The Oxford English Dictionary, volume III (1933)
