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verbemperil (third-person singular simple present emperils, present participle (US) emperiling or (UK) emperilling, simple past and past participle (US) emperiled or (UK) emperilled)
present singular third person emperils · US participle present emperiling · UK participle present emperilling · US participle past emperiled · US past emperiled · UK participle past emperilled · UK past emperilled
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of imperil.
His person to emperill so in fight
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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APA
emperil. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emperil
MLA
“emperil.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emperil. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “emperil,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emperil.
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