0 to put something or someone at risk or in danger of being harmed or destroyed:
1 to put something or someone in danger:
Their sense of self-and often their very lives-have been imperiled; they describe themselves as survivors of a "shipwreck" (p. 73).
By failing to recognize his knowledge limitations, the utopian engineer imperils his position.
There seemed no safe place to lodge her and her arrest could imperil the rest.
A sense of something imperiled was the hallmark of conservative culture.
To stray from this code is to imperil salvation, and to risk exclusion from the community of the saved.
This situation absolutely imperils our already tenuous claim to professional status' (p. 379).
To the extent that we emphasize the embeddedness of behavior in multifaceted context, we imperil our ability to produce parsimonious models.
These practices will, among other things, imperil macroeconomic stability.
