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dangerous

/ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒ(ə.)ɹəs/ adjective A2
  1. Full of danger. · Railway crossings without gates are highly dangerous.
  2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
  3. In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. (colloquial, dated)
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There was more than benevolence in this action; there was courage; the south was aflame, and to assist, even on his death-bed, the father of so dangerous a Bonapartist as Dantès, was stigmatized as a crime.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 127 · C1
If you wish to see me the king’s attorney, you must desire for me some of those violent and dangerous diseases from the cure of which so much honor redounds to the physician.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 53 · C1
His dangerous correspondence has been destroyed or removed.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 32 · B2
“Would he not consider it as too dangerous?”
A Study in Scarlet, p. 47 · B2

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