jeopard
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛpə(ɹ)d/
jeopard (jeopards, present participle jeoparding; past and past participle jeoparded)
- (transitive, archaic) To put in jeopardy; to expose to loss or injury
- Synonyms: imperil, hazard
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:3.23?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter xxv], in Le Morte Darthur, book I:
- Soo they come vnto Carlyon / wherof his knyghtes were passynge glad / And whanne they herd of his auentures / they merueilled that he wold ieoparde his persone soo al one / But alle men of worship said it was mery to be vnder suche a chyuetayne that wolde put his persone in auenture as other poure knyghtes dyd
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts of the Apostles XV:
- It semed therfore to us a goode thynge […] to sende chosen men unto you, with oure beloved Barnabas and Paul, men that have ieoperded theyr lives, for the name of oure lorde Jesus Christ.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
- “And, by the Saint Christopher at my baldric,” said the good yeoman, “were there no other cause than the safety of that poor faithful knave, Wamba, I would jeopard a joint ere a hair of his head were hurt.”
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