endangers
Puts at risk
Endangers means puts at risk or exposes to harm.
Someone who drives recklessly endangers other motorists.
A species becomes endangered when its survival is threatened.
Smoking endangers your health.
The scandal endangers his reelection chances.
The word often appears in legal and safety contexts where actions create potential for serious harm.
Puts at serious risk
- imperilsPuts in danger
- menacesEndangers or intimidates
- compromisesSettlements through mutual concession
- underminesWeakens by stealth
destabilizes · hazards · exposes · perils · risks · toys with
Failure to exercise care
- carelessnessInattention causing mistakes
- irresponsibilityFailure to meet obligations
- foolhardinessReckless bravery, unwise daring
- imprudenceUnwise decision-making
heedlessness · thoughtlessness · brinksmanship · daredevilry · gambling · risk-taking · playing with fire
Complete vanishing of a species
- habitat lossElimination of living spaces
- poachingUnlawful wildlife capture
- overhuntingExcessive wildlife killing
- deforestationLarge-scale woodland elimination
overfishing · climate change · invasive species · biodiversity loss · wildlife trafficking · ecosystem collapse · vulnerable · threatened species
Causes physical harm
- damagesCompensation for injury
- woundsBodily tissue damage
- hurtsCauses physical distress
- poisonsHarmful ingested substances
contaminates · pollutes · toxifies · irradiates · destructs · devastates · ravages · blights
jeopardizes
Puts at serious risk
- imperilsPuts in danger
- menacesEndangers or intimidates
- compromisesSettlements through mutual concession
undermines · destabilizes · hazards · exposes · perils · risks · toys with
negligence
Failure to exercise care
- carelessnessInattention causing mistakes
- irresponsibilityFailure to meet obligations
- foolhardinessReckless bravery, unwise daring
imprudence · heedlessness · thoughtlessness · brinksmanship · daredevilry · gambling · risk-taking · playing with fire
extinction
Complete vanishing of a species
- habitat lossElimination of living spaces
- poachingUnlawful wildlife capture
- overhuntingExcessive wildlife killing
deforestation · overfishing · climate change · invasive species · biodiversity loss · wildlife trafficking · ecosystem collapse · vulnerable · threatened species · CITES
injures
Causes physical harm
poisons · contaminates · pollutes · toxifies · irradiates · destructs · devastates · ravages · blights · corrupts
- critically endangeredAt extinction's edge
- endangered speciesOrganisms facing extinction risk
- endangered species advocatesThose protecting threatened wildlife
- reckless endangermentCharge for dangerous carelessness
- child endangermentCrime of risking kids' safety
- endangered languagesSpeech nearing extinction