Word Meanings - SHRINKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger.

Related words: (words related to SHRINKER)

• DANGERLESS
  Free from danger.
• DANGER
  difficulty, fr. OF. dagier, dongier , F. danger danger, fr. an assumed LL. dominiarium power, authority, from L. 1. Authority; jurisdiction; control. In dangerhad he . . . the young girls. Chaucer. 2. Power to harm; subjection or liability to
• DANGEROUS
  1. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. Shak. It is dangerous to assert a negative. Macaulay. 2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
• DANGERFUL
  Full of danger; dangerous. -- Dan"ger*ful*ly, adv. Udall.
• ENDANGERMENT
  Hazard; peril. Milton.
• ENDANGER
  1. To put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace. All the other difficulties of his reign only exercised without endangering him. Burke. 2. To incur the hazard of; to risk.