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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

... safe with vs, To let his madnesse range.[11] Therefore prepare you, [Sidenote: 167] I your Commission will forthwith dispatch,[12] [Sidenote: 180] And he to England shall along with you: The termes of our estate, may not endure[13] Hazard so dangerous as doth hourely grow [Sidenote: so neer's as] Out of his Lunacies. ...

— The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 • George MacDonald

... Holmes's letters reveal him as he is—wise, generous, chivalrous. Witness the kindliness and delicate sympathy of his letters during the Lord Byron trouble.... Miss W. has read us some of Howells's 'Hazard of New Fortunes.' It strikes me that it is a strong book. That indomitable old German, Linden—that saint of the rather godless sect of dynamiters and anarchists—is a grand figure; one ...

— Authors and Friends • Annie Fields

... concerning your friend might have been aroused in your mind. Winbush, however, went a little beyond his instructions, and said he thought a woman was present, because of a perfume he noticed when he first entered the room. That particular perfume is used by Mademoiselle Duplaix, and I should hazard a guess that Mr. Nixon had stolen her handkerchief that evening, not a criminal offense, but a matter ...

— The Master Detective - Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles • Percy James Brebner

... in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor. But I should be false to the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence. From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace; and in the darkest hours of my ...

— The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave • Frederick Douglass

... his girl? I had doomed them too. They would never even know that an attempt had been made to rescue them. If they still lived, they might some day come upon the ruined remnants of this great plane hanging in its lofty sepulcher and hazard vain guesses and be filled with wonder; but they would never know; and I could not but be glad that they would not know that Tom Billings had sealed their death-warrants by his ...

— The People that Time Forgot • Edgar Rice Burroughs

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