Hazard

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A chance of being injured or harmed.
  • noun. Risk or danger.
  • noun. A possible source of danger.
  • noun. A dice game similar to craps.
  • noun. An obstacle, such as a sand trap, found on a golf course.
  • noun. Chance or an accident.
  • transitive verb. To expose to danger or risk. synonym: endanger.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To venture (something).
  • transitive verb. To express at the risk of denial, criticism, or censure.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The leading game at dice.
  • noun. A fortuitous event; chance; accident.
  • noun. Risk; peril; exposure to danger; liability to do or to receive harm: as, the hazards of the sea; he did it at the hazard of his reputation.
  • noun. One of the holes in the sides of a billiard-table.
  • noun. Hence A stroke in billiards: known as losing hazard when the player pockets his own ball off another, and as winning hazard when he pockets the object-ball.
  • noun. Something risked or staked.
  • noun. In tennis and some similar games, that side of the court into which the ball is served. See tennis.
  • noun. Synonyms Venture, etc. See risk, n.
  • To take the chance of; venture to do, undertake, etc.
  • To take the risk or danger of; run the risk of incurring or bringing to pass: as, to hazard the loss of reputation or of a battle.
  • To imperil; expose to danger or loss: as, to hazard life for a friend; to hazard an estate recklessly.
  • To incur the danger involved in; venture.
  • To expose to the risk of; put in danger of: with to.
  • Synonyms To jeopard, peril, imperil, endanger. See danger, and risk, n.
  • To try the chance; adventure; run the risk or danger.
  • noun. In golf, a bunker, water, path, road, railway, fence, or ditch.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.
  • transitive verb. To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
  • transitive verb. To venture to incur, or bring on.
  • noun. A game of chance played with dice.
  • noun. The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
  • noun. Risk; danger; peril.
  • noun. Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
  • noun. Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
  • noun. Any place into which the ball may not be safely played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind of bad ground.
  • noun. a table on which hazard is played, or any game of chance for stakes.
  • noun. to take the chance or risk.
  • noun. at risk; liable to suffer damage or loss.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. sand or water obstacle on a golf course
  • verb. To expose to chance; to take a risk.
  • verb. To incur or venture.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
  • verb. put at risk
  • noun. an obstacle on a golf course
  • noun. a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
  • verb. take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
  • noun. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
  • Word Usage
    "The other hazard is the unpaved street or path, particularly where it goes downhill."
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