Peril
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To cause to be in danger; to imperil.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A situation of serious and immediate danger. Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
Example sentence: Businesses cannot be extricated or disintermediated from the communities they serve. Businesses who do that will do that at their own peril. They will draw fire. And companies who are integrated will be lauded by their communities and not draw fire.
Scupper
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A drainage hole on the deck of a ship.A similar opening in a wall or parapet that allows water to drain from a roof.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: Thwart or destroy, especially something belonging or pertaining to another; cf. .