endanger

verb

Etymology: From en- + danger. Displaced native Old English frēcnian.

1. To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.

   “I hold him but a fool that will endanger / His body [in a duel] for a girl that loves him not”

   “All the other difficulties of his reign only exercised without endangering him.”

2. To incur the hazard of; to risk; to run the risk of.

   “He that turneth the humours back […] endangereth malign ulcers.”