dangers

NOUN

hazard, troublesome situation

Synonyms

STRONGEST

crisis emergency exposure insecurity instability jeopardy menace peril pitfall possibility probability risk threat uncertainty vulnerability

STRONG

clouds dynamite endangerment exigency precariousness precipice slipperiness storm venture

WEAK

double trouble hot potato risky business thin ice

Antonyms

STRONGEST

calm certainty peace safety security sureness unlikelihood

WEAK

care carefulness guard preservation

Example Sentences

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The back-to-back dingers in the eighth cost them that lead.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2025

Three of those dingers came on successive pitches on Oct.

From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2022

The only player with more was Trevor Story, who smashed seven dingers when he arrived to the show in 2016 with Colorado.

From Washington Times • Aug. 14, 2022

He broke Mark McGwire’s single-season home run record with 73 dingers in a season in 2001 and later broke Hank Aaron record for most all-time with 762.

From Fox News • Oct. 30, 2021

Twelve hundred hammerers, measurers, caulkers, armourers, forgers, smiths, shipwrights; twelve hundred dingers, clashers, dongers, rattlers, clinkers, bangers bangers bangers!

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles