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peril
English
Etymology
From Middle English peril, from Old French peril, from Latin per?culum. Doublet of periculum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p???l/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /?p???l/
- Rhymes: -???l, -???l
Noun
peril (countable and uncountable, plural perils)
- A situation of serious and immediate danger.
- Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
- The perils of the jungle (animals and insects, weather, etc)
- (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
Synonyms
- danger, hazard, jeopardy, risk, threat, wathe
- See also Thesaurus:danger
Derived terms
- yellow peril
- imperil
Related terms
- perilous
Translations
Verb
peril (third-person singular simple present perils, present participle periling or perilling, simple past and past participle periled or perilled)
- (transitive) To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk. [from 16th c.]
- 1830, Robert Hayne, Speech in the United States Senate:
- And are we, Mr. President, who stood by our country then, who threw open our coffers, who bared our bosoms, who freely perilled all in that conflict, to be reproached with want of attachment to the Union?
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. XIV:
- "I will have nothing to do with this matter, whatever it is. Do you think I am going to peril my reputation for you?"
- 1830, Robert Hayne, Speech in the United States Senate:
Anagrams
- piler, plier, prile
Middle English
Alternative forms
- perile, periil, perel, peryle, pereyl, parelle, peryl, perell, perill, parell, pereil
Etymology
From Old French peril, from Latin per?culum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?ril/, /p??ri?l/, /?p?r?l/, /?par?l/
Noun
peril (plural perilles)
- Danger, risk, peril; something that is potentially harmful or risky:
- A location where danger, risk, or peril is present or likely.
- A thing or enterprise which creates peril; anything which creates or which is of peril.
- Sinfulness; religious threat or danger.
- (Late Middle English) Bad fortune; unluckiness or mischance.
Related terms
- perilous
- perilously
Descendants
- English: peril
- Scots: peril
References
- “per??l, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.
Old French
Etymology
From Latin per?culum.
Noun
peril m (oblique plural periz or perilz, nominative singular periz or perilz, nominative plural peril)
- peril; hazard; danger
Descendants
- ? Middle English: peril
- English: peril
- Scots: peril
- French: péril
- Norman: péthi (Jersey)
peril From the web:
- what peril means
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- what perils are covered under ho3
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- what perils are covered under special form
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grief
English
Etymology
From Middle English greef, gref, from Old French grief (“grave, heavy, grievous, sad”), from Latin gravis (“heavy, grievous, sad”). Doublet of grave.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??i?f/
- Rhymes: -i?f
Noun
grief (countable and uncountable, plural griefs or grieves)
- Suffering, hardship. [from early 13th c.]
- Pain of mind arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. [from early 14th c.]
- (countable) Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial.
Derived terms
- give someone grief
Translations
Verb
grief (third-person singular simple present griefs, present participle griefing, simple past and past participle griefed)
- (online gaming) To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game. [from late 1990s]
Usage notes
- This verb is most commonly found in the gerund-participle griefing and the derived noun griefer.
Related terms
- grievance
- grieve
- grievous
Further reading
- grief on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- griefer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- grief in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- grief in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- grief at OneLook Dictionary Search
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch grief, from Old French grief, from Vulgar Latin *grevis, from Latin gravis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?rif/
- Hyphenation: grief
- Rhymes: -if
Noun
grief f (plural grieven, diminutive griefje n)
- (chiefly in the plural) grievance, complaint, bone to pick, issue
Derived terms
- grieven
French
Etymology
From Old French grief, from Vulgar Latin grevis (influenced by its antonym, levis), from Latin gravis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g?réh?us. Doublet of grave.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??i.j?f/
Adjective
grief (feminine singular griève, masculine plural griefs, feminine plural grièves)
- (archaic, literary) grievous
Derived terms
- grièvement
Noun
grief m (plural griefs)
- complaint
- grief
- grievance (formal complaint filed with an authority)
Further reading
- “grief” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- figer
Ladin
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *grevis, from Latin gravis.
Adjective
grief m (feminine singular grieva, masculine plural griefs, feminine plural grieves)
- arduous
- difficult
- steep
Old French
Alternative forms
- gref (typically Anglo-Norman)
Etymology
Probably from the verb grever, or from Vulgar Latin grevis (influenced by its antonym, levis), from Latin gravis.
Noun
grief m (oblique plural griés, nominative singular griés, nominative plural grief)
- pain; anguish; suffering
Descendants
- French: grief
- ? Middle Dutch: grief
- Dutch: grief
- ? Middle English: greef, gref
- English: grief
Adjective
grief m (oblique and nominative feminine singular grieve)
- sad
Descendants
- French: grief (archaic, literary)
grief From the web:
- what grief means
- what grief looks like
- what grief does to your body
- what grief feels like
- what grief does to the brain
- what grief really looks like
- what grief does to a person
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