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Peril at End House — infobox Book | name = Peril at End House title orig = translator = image caption = Dust jacket illustration of the US (true first) edition. See Publication history (below) for UK first edition jacket image. author = Agatha Christie cover artist … Wikipedia
peril — per|il [ˈperıl] n [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: Latin periculum] 1.) [U] literary or formal great danger, especially of being harmed or killed in peril ▪ They put their own lives in peril to rescue their friends. great/grave/serious… … Dictionary of contemporary English
peril — noun 1 great danger ADJECTIVE ▪ deadly, dire, grave, great, mortal, serious ▪ imminent ▪ financial … Collocations dictionary
peril — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Latin periculum more at fear Date: 13th century 1. exposure to the risk of being injured, destroyed, or lost ; danger < fire put the city in peril > 2. something that imperils ; risk … New Collegiate Dictionary
peril — n 1. risk, jeopardy, danger, hazard; menace, threat, minacity, gathering storm, handwriting on the wall, foreboding; endangerment, imperilment, liability, vulnerability, susceptibility, subjection, exposure, openness; precariousness, insecurity,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
put in — phr verb Put in is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ambulance, ↑appearance, ↑bag, ↑basket, ↑bid, ↑bin, ↑boiler, ↑box, ↑bracket, ↑claim, ↑clause, ↑clip, ↑ … Collocations dictionary
peril — Synonyms and related words: breakers ahead, cardhouse, cause for alarm, compromise, crisis, danger, dangerous ground, desultoriness, emergency, encounter danger, endanger, endangerment, expose, exposure, gamble, gamble with, gaping chasm,… … Moby Thesaurus
peril — per·il || perÉ™l n. danger, risk, hazard v. put at risk, endanger, jeopardize … English contemporary dictionary
peril — I. n. Danger, hazard, jeopardy, risk. II. v. a. Risk, endanger, imperil, jeopard, hazard, put in danger, expose to danger … New dictionary of synonyms
Yellow Peril — (sometimes Yellow Terror) was a color metaphor for race that originated in the late nineteenth century with immigration of Chinese laborers to various Western countries, notably the United States, and later associated with the Japanese during the … Wikipedia
