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Risk   /rɪsk/   Listen
noun
Risk  n.  
1.
Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction. "The imminent and constant risk of assassination, a risk which has shaken very strong nerves."
2.
(Com.) Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property.
To run a risk, to incur hazard; to encounter danger.
Synonyms: Danger; hazard; peril; jeopardy; exposure. See Danger.


verb
Risk  v. t.  (past & past part. risked; pres. part. risking)  
1.
To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication.
2.
To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.
Synonyms: To hazard; peril; endanger; jeopard.





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"Risk" Quotes from Famous Books



... had entirely different ideas upon the subject. She thoroughly believed in the old Indian, and was sure that he would not have come and told her that story unless it had been true. If her husband chose to stay and risk his life, she could not help it; but she would not subject herself and her children to the terrible danger which threatened them. She had begged her husband to go with her; but as he had refused, and had returned to his work, she and her children ...
— Stories of New Jersey • Frank Richard Stockton
... and he was dismissed. When we were alone the General said to me, "Well, what do you think of that?" I observed that the fortune-teller did not run any great risk in foretelling my death, which was a very probable circumstance in the state in which I was; "but," added I, "if I procure the wines which I have ordered from France, you will soon see me ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... and he rose as usual, stooped forward, pressed his hands on his ribs, and ran round the room, if not at the imminent risk of his life, certainly to the great danger of the spinning wheel and the goslings. Both the females regarded him with great surprise, and ...
— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton
... that a man thus knowing Christ and wilfully rejecting Him should thereby risk the ruin of his soul? Can we not recognize this awful law of life that wilful sin against light tends to darkening of the light—that every rejection of God and good draws blood as it were on the spiritual retina, that ...
— The Gospel of the Hereafter • J. Paterson-Smyth
... can I say? That woman is a brute beast, and I can't leave Andree in her charge to be killed by her. I have brought the child here, and I certainly shall not take her back. I will even own that I won't run the risk of going back to the room. You will have to turn the girl out of ...
— Fruitfulness - Fecondite • Emile Zola


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