hazard
noun
[ ˈhazəd ]
• a danger or risk.
• "the hazards of childbirth"
Similar:
danger,
risk,
peril,
threat,
menace,
difficulty,
problem,
pitfall,
jeopardy,
perilousness,
endangerment,
imperilment,
• chance; probability.
• "we can form no calculation concerning the laws of hazard"
Similar:
chance,
probability,
fortuity,
luck,
fate,
destiny,
fortune,
providence,
serendipity,
accident,
happenstance,
• a gambling game using two dice, in which the chances are complicated by arbitrary rules.
• (in real tennis) each of the winning openings in the court.
• a stroke with which a ball is pocketed.
hazard
verb
• say (something) in a tentative way.
• "he hazarded a guess"
• put (something) at risk of being lost.
• "the cargo business is too risky to hazard money on"
Similar:
risk,
put at risk,
jeopardize,
chance,
gamble,
stake,
bet,
take a chance with,
endanger,
imperil,
expose to danger,
put in jeopardy,
Opposite:
keep safe,
Origin:
Middle English (in hazard (sense 3 of the noun)): from Old French hasard, from Spanish azar, from Arabic az-zahr ‘chance, luck’, from Persian zār or Turkish zar ‘dice’.
