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peril

/ˈpɛɹɪl/ noun C1
  1. A situation of serious and immediate danger. (countable, uncountable) · Your life is in peril.
  2. Something that causes, contains, or presents danger. (countable, uncountable) · the perils of the jungle (animals and insects, weather, etc.)
  3. An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event. (countable, uncountable)

Plural perils

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There is one other yet to pass through the shed, who has as it were a hundred eyes, and until he has come and gone, your life is still in peril.” At that moment the master himself entered, and having had to complain that his oxen had not been properly fed, he went up to their racks and cried out: “Why is there such a scarcity of fodder?
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 34 · B2
Douglas had given him the impression that some danger was hanging over his head, and he had always looked upon his sudden departure from California, and also his renting a house in so quiet a place in England, as being connected with this peril.
The Valley of Fear, p. 50 · C1
On all the perils that we past.
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 14 · C1
“Sire,” said Blacas, who had for a moment the hope of sacrificing Villefort to his own profit, “I am compelled to tell you that these are not mere rumors destitute of foundation which thus disquiet me; but a serious-minded man, deserving all my confidence, and charged by me to watch over the south” (the duke hesitated as he pronounced these words), “has arrived by post to tell me that a great peril threatens the king, and so I hastened to you, sire.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 90 · C1

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