- hazard or risk of or exposure to loss, harm, death, or injury: For a moment his life was in jeopardy.
- peril or danger: The spy was in constant jeopardy of being discovered.
- the danger or hazard of being found guilty, and of consequent punishment, undergone by criminal defendants on trial.
- danger of injury, loss, death, etc; risk; peril; hazard
- danger of being convicted and punished for a criminal offence
