Crossword-Solution: PERIL 5 letters, 153 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Peril	n.	Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.
Peril	v. t.	To expose to danger; to hazard; to risk; as, to peril one's life.
Peril	v. i.	To be in danger.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
PERIL	anagram	PILER, PLIER, REPLI, RIPLE

We have 153 clues for the answer “PERIL”

Clue	Answers
"For those in ___ on the sea."	1 answer
"The Penultimate ___" (Lemony Snicket book)	1 answer
"Use at your own ___"	1 answer
"__ at End House": Christie mystery	1 answer
Action film heroes are often in it	1 answer
Agatha Christie's "_____ at End House"	1 answer
An undesirable thing to be in	1 answer
Breakers ahead	1 answer
Cause for caution	1 answer
Christie's "___ at End House"	1 answer
Climate change, e.g.	1 answer
Damocles' situation.	1 answer
Danger for Pauline	1 answer
Danger of rising anger in political extremists	1 answer
Daredevil's stock-in-trade	1 answer
Daredevils are often in it	1 answer
Dire distress	1 answer
Dire risk	1 answer
Exposure to harm	1 answer
Feature in old serials	1 answer
Freezing rain, to drivers	1 answer
Fright for Pearl White	1 answer
Gathering storm	1 answer
Grave danger	1 answer
Grave risk	1 answer
Great danger	1 answer
Great risk	1 answer
Great risk or danger	1 answer
Hidden rocks, to a ship	1 answer
Hurricanes often bring a lot of it	1 answer
Iceberg to an ocean liner	1 answer
Iceberg, for some	1 answer
Immediate danger	1 answer
Imminent danger	1 answer
Imminent risk	1 answer
Impending distress	1 answer
Ingredient of melodrama.	1 answer
Insurance trigger, to insurers	1 answer
It may lead to injury	1 answer
It's a big risk!	1 answer
It's dangerous to put someone in	1 answer
Jeopardy, without Trebek	1 answer
Life-or-death situation	1 answer
Major danger	1 answer
Minacious situation	1 answer
Mortal danger	1 answer
One of Pauline's adventures	1 answer
Pau1ine's problem	1 answer
Pauline's adventure	1 answer
Pauline's predicament	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ETAER

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with PERIL (5)

Bold deed thou hast presum’d, adventrous _Eve_, And peril great provok’t, who thus hast dar’d Had it bin onely coveting to Eye That sacred Fruit, sacred to abstinence, Much more to taste it under banne to touch.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

There would have been no scandal, indeed, nor peril to the holy whiteness of the clergyman’s good fame, had she visited him in his own study, where many a penitent, ere now, had confessed sins of perhaps as deep a dye as the one betokened by the scarlet letter.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Chauvelin had not raised his voice above a whisper; he was now quietly taking a pinch of snuff, yet there was something in his attitude, something in those pale, foxy eyes, which seemed to freeze the blood in her veins, as would the sight of some deadly hitherto unguessed peril.

The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

CHAPTER V CORRIDORS OF PERIL How long I slept upon the floor of the storeroom I do not know, but it must have been many hours.

The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Hand me that switch.” The switch hovered in the air—the peril was desperate— “My! Look behind you, aunt!” The old lady whirled round, and snatched her skirts out of danger.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Quotes with PERIL (3)

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

J. R. R. Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring

So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

Titus Lucretius Carus

Despite tribulation, distress, famine, peril, and sword, God had allowed them all to emerge as conquerors.

Donna Lynn Hess

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 346 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).