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hazard

see also: Hazard

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hazard

(historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
Chance. [from 16th c.]
The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. [from 16th c.]
He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
- Rogers
  Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard.
An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. [from 19th c.]
The video game involves guiding a character on a skateboard past all kinds of hazards.
(in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
(golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
(billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
(obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
(tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
(programming) 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.

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hazard (hazards, present participle hazarding; past and past participle hazarded)

To expose to chance; to take a risk.
- John Clarke
  Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience.
- Fuller
  He hazards his neck to the halter.
To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.
- RQ
- Landor
  They hazard to cut their feet.
I'll hazard a guess.

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Hazard

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