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Adjective: perilous  pe-ree-lus
  1. Fraught with danger
    "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"
    - parlous, precarious, touch-and-go

See also: dangerous, peril, perilously, perilousness, unsafe

Encyclopedia: Perilous

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