English Explanatory Dictionary

risk life and limb

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To do something dangerous that will risk someone's existence together with his or her body faculties (used to emphasize and often overstate the danger associated with an action).

Word forms

risk life and limb risks life and limb risking life and limb risked life and limb risk one's life and limb

Synonyms

risk one's neck risk one's life
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on R Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary