danger
/ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒɚ/ noun A2- Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury. · There's plenty of danger in the desert.
- An instance or cause of likely serious harm.
- The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger"). · The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide.
Plural dangers
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One glance told her of the danger close at hand.
There was only one danger—that my joints would rust; but I kept an oil-can in my cottage and took care to oil myself whenever I needed it.
However, there came a day when I forgot to do this, and, being caught in a rainstorm, before I thought of the danger my joints had rusted, and I was left to stand in the woods until you came to help me.
“We must protect him ourselves if he is in danger,” replied the Tin Woodman.
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