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Roget 665: danger, peril, insecurity, jeopardy, risk, hazard, venture, precariousness, slipperiness; instability etc. 149; defenselessness etc. adj., exposure etc. (liability) 177; vulnerability; vulnerable point, heel of Achilles^†; forlorn hope etc. (hopelessness) 859.    [Dangerous course] leap in the dark etc. (rashness) 863; road to ruin, faciles descensus Averni [Lat.] [Vergil], hairbreadth escape.    cause for alarm; source of danger etc. 667.    rock ahead [Approach of danger], breakers ahead; storm brewing; clouds in the horizon, clouds gathering; warning etc. 668; alarm etc. 669.    [Sense of danger] apprehension etc. 860.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 162: destruction; waste, dissolution, breaking up; diruption^†, disruption; consumption; disorganization.    fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash; eboulement [Fr.], smash, havoc, delabrement [Fr.], debacle; break down, break up, fall apart; prostration; desolation, bouleversement [Fr.], wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm; washout.    extinction, annihilation; destruction of life etc. 361; knock-down blow; doom, crack of doom.    destroying etc. v.; demolition, demolishment; overthrow, subversion, suppression; abolition etc. (abrogation) 756; biblioclasm^†; sacrifice; ravage, razzia^†; inactivation; incendiarism; revolution etc. 146; extirpation etc. (extraction) 301; beginning of the end, commencement de la fin [Fr.], road to ruin; dilapidation etc. (deterioration) 659; sabotage.    ... meer laten zien

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