1. State of being in danger or at risk
   "drinking alcohol is a health peril";
   - hazard, jeopardy, risk, endangerment
    
2. Quality of involving uncertainty and potential harm
   "The peril of the stock market discouraged some investors";
   - riskiness
    
3. A venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury
   "he saw the rewards but not the perils of crime";
   - risk, danger

1. Pose a threat to; present a danger to
   - endanger, jeopardize, jeopardise [Brit], menace, threaten, imperil
    
2. Put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
   - queer [informal], expose, scupper, endanger

Derived forms: periled, perils, perilling, periling, perilled

Type of: affect, be, bear on, bear upon, danger, exist, impact, venture

Encyclopedia: Peril