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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



... the work of naturalists for centuries past; and although they did not know what they were doing, it is now evident to evolutionists that they were tracing the lines of genetic relationship. For, be it observed, a scientific or natural classification differs very much from a popular or hap-hazard classification, and the difference consists in this, that while a popular classification is framed with exclusive reference to the external appearance of organisms, a scientific classification is made with reference to the whole ...
— The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution • George John Romanes
... emptying his pipe, "you have stated a universal truth." He pushed a smoldering log with his foot toward the remnants of the embers. "Suppose I were so minded to venture"—and he mentioned a modest sum—"in this hazard and we patched up ...
— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham
... himself to the Prince's formidable manoeuvres. A little further off, he found a position much more favourable; there he firmly posted his force, determined to give battle. In vain did his officers urge him not to hazard an action, not to risk the last army which remained to the monarchy, and to confine himself to covering Gien whilst awaiting the coming of Hocquincourt. "No," replied he, "we must conquer ...
— Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) • Sutherland Menzies
... pity that the noble Moor Should hazard such a place as his own second With one of an ingraft infirmity. It were an honest action to say So ...
— A Book of the Play - Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character • Dutton Cook
... complained of dumb ague, but witness had never been able to detect any positive disease. He did not know that he had any family. He regarded him as a person of unsound intellect, who believed himself a member and the victim of some secret society. If he were to hazard an opinion, he would say deceased ...
— The Dynamiter • Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson


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