liability or exposure to harm or injury; risk; peril.

an instance or cause of peril; menace.

Obsolete . power; jurisdiction; domain.

noun

care , carefulness , guard , preservation , safety , security , immunity , protection , safeguard , shelter

noun

clouds , crisis , double trouble , dynamite , emergency , endangerment , exigency , exposure , hot potato , insecurity , instability , jeopardy , menace , peril , pitfall , possibility , precariousness , precipice , probability , risk , risky business , slipperiness , storm , thin ice , threat , uncertainty , venture , vulnerability , hazard , imperilment , adventure , difficulty , fear , imminence , impediment , skull and crossbones , snake in the grass , temerity