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Hazard   /hˈæzərd/   Listen
Hazard

noun
1.
A source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune.  Synonyms: endangerment, jeopardy, peril, risk.
2.
An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another.  Synonyms: chance, fortune, luck.  "We ran into each other by pure chance"
3.
An obstacle on a golf course.
verb
(past & past part. hazarded; pres. part. hazarding)
1.
Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation.  Synonyms: guess, pretend, venture.  "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"
2.
Put at risk.  Synonyms: adventure, jeopardize, stake, venture.
3.
Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome.  Synonyms: adventure, chance, gamble, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances.



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"Hazard" Quotes from Famous Books



... mislaid her glasses, worked her shuttle at hazard in and out of that picture of intricate pattern called Life, and having tangled and knotted together the crimson thread of passion, the golden thread of youth and the honest brown of a deep, undemonstrative love, she left the disentanglement of the muddle in the hands ...
— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest

... tried quivering flight, and brown Hesperiidae, "bedouins of the pathless air," buzzed in vanishing eccentricity. But it was not for these that I lingered long on the seaward crest. There below me lay the bay that the exploring Pilgrims entered at such hazard, that but the day before had been blotted out with a freezing storm and gray with snow, now smiling in unforgettable beauty at my feet, bringing irresistibly to ...
— Old Plymouth Trails • Winthrop Packard

... While walking almost at hazard, following this bat, looking at this manure of the birds, respiring this dust, in this obscurity among the cobwebs and scampering rats, we came to a dark corner in which, on a big wheelbarrow, I could just distinguish ...
— The Memoirs of Victor Hugo • Victor Hugo

... The initials of my name, still legible, appeared rudely carved on the posts—a boyish propensity which most of us have indulged; and I well remember ministering to its gratification wherever I durst hazard the experiment, when first initiated into the mystery of hewing out these important letters with a ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby

... you, my dear Mrs. Jameson? Sojourning in Bohemian castles; or wandering among the ruins of old Athens? Which of your many plans, or dreams of plans have you put into execution? I am both curious and anxious to know something of your proceedings, and shall dispatch this at a hazard to your brother-in-law's, where I suppose your movements will always be known, and ...
— Records of Later Life • Frances Anne Kemble


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