hazard

Plural: hazards

Noun

• a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
  • "drinking alcohol is a health hazard"
• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
• an obstacle on a golf course
• The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
• An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
• An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
• A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
• The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
• A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
• Chance.
• Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
• The side of the court into which the ball is served.
• A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.

Verb

Verb Forms: hazarded, hazarding, hazards

• To venture or risk; to put forward cautiously.
• put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
• put at risk
• take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
• To expose to chance; to take a risk.
• To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on.

Examples

• He decided to HAZARD a guess on an obscure word, hoping it was valid.
• He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
• I'll hazard a guess.
• The video game involves guiding a character on a skateboard past all kinds of hazards.

Synonyms

adventure, chance, endangerment, fortune, gamble, guess, jeopardize, jeopardy, luck, peril, pretend, risk, run a risk, stake, take a chance, take chances, venture, bet, pledge, skin in the game, wager

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