PERILLED Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

periled

verb

variants also perilled

past tense of peril

as in endangered

to place in danger a tribute to the men and women who, as firefighters, peril their lives daily

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Warming has endangered the globe especially in recent years; scientists calculated that Earth’s average temperature in 2025 hovered among one of the three hottest on record, along with 2024 and 2023.

— Linley Sanders, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026
Goode charts the exploitation and mistreatment of reptiles that are illegally sold and sometimes endangered through intricate, decades-old smuggling operations that have often, but not always, escaped detection at airports.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026

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All told, there are 91 species that live in California and are listed as endangered under the act, and another 51 species listed as threatened.

— Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 31 July 2026
In England, where half the country is gripped by drought, firefighters battled a wildfire on an east coast heath in Suffolk, near a nuclear power station that fire services said wasn’t threatened.

— Mark Carlson, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026

Definition of threatened

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Undermining trust By introducing an AI image generator as a Google Earth feature, Google risked undermining public trust in Google Earth as a reliable reference for providing authentic imagery of the real world, Ess said.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026
Doing so only risked antagonising members of the international football community and creating suspicion.

— Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 31 July 2026

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