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Grammar : Adj
Spell : en-deyn-jerd
Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈdeɪn dʒərd



Définition of endangered

Origin :
  • late 15c., from en- (1) "make, put in" + danger. Related: Endangered; endangering. Endangered species first recorded 1964.
  • adj imperiled
Example sentences :
  • My health, which had ever been feeble, was endangered by this state of chaos.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • This led to a revolt which endangered his life, and he had to abandon his scheme.
  • Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
  • Not for my life, or for all the lives on the ship, would I consciously have endangered her.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 » by Various
  • She had taken it into her head that his health was endangered in some way.
  • Extract from : « The Arrow of Gold » by Joseph Conrad
  • You will advance with all speed to the support of the endangered left.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • The ship had been several times on fire, and the magazine was endangered.
  • Extract from : « The Naval History of the United States » by Willis J. Abbot.
  • Subsequently she had charmed Bentivoglio, not so happily but that she endangered her own spell.
  • Extract from : « Little Novels of Italy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett
  • Greatest of all, and genuine creator, with his disappearance the equilibrium is endangered.
  • Extract from : « The Arena » by Various
  • I leave the reader to characterize a system which is endangered by such causes.
  • Extract from : « My Bondage and My Freedom » by Frederick Douglass
  • It is not the first time their lives have been endangered by her violence.
  • Extract from : « Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 » by Various

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