- peril
- n.
1) to face a peril
2) to avert a peril
3) at one's peril
4) in peril (our lives were in peril)
* * *['perɪl]at one's perilto avert a perilto face a perilin peril (our lives were in peril)
Combinatory dictionary. 2013.
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