endanger in English:

There's danger that the levee will break. We have to evacuate immediately.

The possibility of suffering harm or injury. A person or thing that is likely to cause harm or injury. Drought is a danger.

Danger ahead.

It is strange that a cameraman heading for a war-zone should not know about the danger of unexploded shells. The newspaper company is being negligent in its training.

I'd stop worrying about it and take some action. The anxiety that comes from doing nothing is worse than any danger you might face.

Many of the world's seven thousand or so languages are spoken only by handfuls of living people and are in danger of extinction.

If the demolition of buildings is uncontrolled, a fine city is in danger of becoming nothing more than a concrete jungle.

According to pernickety moderators, non-sentences constitute a mortal danger to Tatoeba.

There's also the danger of unexploded bombs, so they reported it to the police and the area was taped off to keep people out.

The danger of AIDS came home to me when I saw a documentary film on it last night.

On his return the chaste caresses of his wife amply recompenced the warrior for the fatigues he had undergone and for the danger which he had been exposed.

Are you creating for us a future world where there is a greater danger of skin cancer, weakened bodies, less food and fewer plants and animals?

If you're with me as a staff officer then I need you to bring a sense of danger with you to your work.

a devaluation of the dollar would jeopardize New York’s position as a financial centre

Bad weather could jeopardize all our plans.

I'm afriaid that your latest disagreement with the boss may jeopardize your career with the company.

His bad decisions jeopardize our company

He jeopardized his job by being persistently unpunctual.

Don't jeopardize selling hash!

Though it jeopardized his chance for promotion, he criticized his boss

Karen jeopardized her career to help a friend

And I'm willing to jeopardize our future together for one night of glory.

She knew that failing her exams could jeopardize her whole future.

Global climatic changes may have been responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs.

They are in danger of extinction.

Some wild animals are on the verge of extinction.

Many fragile species are on the verge of extinction.

The Siberian tiger is on the verge of extinction.

Due to total russification in Belarus, the Belarusian language is at the brink of extinction.

There are many theories about the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs, but the real cause still remains anyone's guess.

Imogen of the Internet has created a seminal classification of thirty distinct varieties of chatspeak, some now facing linguistic extinction.

Many of the world's seven thousand or so languages are spoken only by handfuls of living people and are in danger of extinction.

Extinction is part of evolution.

It's dangerous!

Our policies and systems are getting outdated and need revising, but to try to swap horses while crossing a stream might be dangerous.

When suddenly faced with a dangerous situation, hold your horses - make sure of the proper action, then act.

Packed into wooden fishing boats like sardines, the immigrants undergo the dangerous voyage there.

She caught sight of the tautology that she was looking for in a crowd of other, equally useless and potentially dangerous, tautologies.

When you swallow a dangerous substance, what you need to do depends on what you swallowed.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

Life is as a box of matches. Treating it cautiously is foolish, not treating it cautiously is dangerous.

They move from place to place, often change jobs, divorce more frequently, and take economic and social risks which seem dangerous.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

Just as the female ant after coition loses her wings, which then become superfluous, nay, dangerous for breeding purposes, so for the most part does a woman lose her beauty after giving birth to one or two children; and probably for the same reasons.

Hence one can say that, of all political ideals, that of making people happy is the most dangerous.

Finally, in 1314, these games had become so violent and dangerous that King Edward II made a law.

The weight of the world is a dangerous thing to try to bear. Take only a small fraction, and the rest of it will soon follow - crushing you.

Uncontrolled, these forces may be dangerous and destructive, but once mastered they can be bent to man's will and desire.

Don't threaten me.

Do you want to threaten sanctions or not?

Creatures are threatened with extinction

Region's leader threatens to declare independence

We watched the enormous thunderclouds come closer and threaten the land.

this sort of reality often threatens us

Thus, they cannot be detected by other animals that threaten them.

It is only through knowledge that we, as a nation, can cope with the dangers that threaten our society.

Legal changes threaten online sales in digital commerce.

Mr Bean denies any suggestion the he has threatened to resign if Mr A did not go

Have you ever been threatened with dismissal at work? No, I have never been threatened with dismissal at work.

(call) The teacher threatened ... my parents and tell them what I had done.

Polluted rivers threaten the existence of fish that live in them.

He threatened the staff with a gun and demanded money.; His knee problem is threatening his cycling career.

The dairy farmers wanted better prices and threatened to go on strike.