endangered
adjUK /ɪnˈdeɪn.d͡ʒəd/ · US /ɪnˈdeɪn.d͡ʒɚd/
1
in danger, at risk, said of something where there is a strong possibility something bad will happen to it (for example, a species in danger of going extinct)
- I have but done my devoir, lady, as a good knight, in defence of an endangered maiden […]1825 June 22, [Walter Scott], Tales of the Crusaders. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- critically endangered, endangeredness, endangered species, nonendangered, unendangered
- Related terms
- endanger