perilous
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- s fraught with danger
a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat
- Taiwan's presidential election might prove to be a perilous watershed in its relationship with China.
- Forty is the perilous age for a workingman.
- They told stories of bombs and artillery turning their houses and courtyards into fiery traps, of perilous rescues, of the fear that they have nothing left to return to.