hazardnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈhæz.əd/us/ˈhæz.ɚd/C1 something that is dangerous and likely to cause damage:
a health/fire hazard
The busy traffic entrance was a hazard to pedestrians.
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Dangers and threats
- baneful
- black spot
- brinkmanship
- calculated risk
- chance
- darkly
- desperately
- dodgy
- gamble
- hazardous
- hazmat
- high-risk
- hostage
- hostage to fortune idiom
- poisoned chalice
- precarious
- pull
- pull a gun, knife, etc. on sb idiom
- risk
- treacherous
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hazardverb [ T ]
uk/ˈhæz.əd/us/ˈhæz.ɚd/to risk doing something, especially making a guess, suggestion, etc.:
I wouldn't like to hazard a guess.
formal to risk doing something that might cause harm to someone or something else:
The policy hazarded the islands and put the lives of the inhabitants at risk.
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Taking risks
- a drowning man will clutch at a straw idiom
- a leap in the dark idiom
- adventurer
- ante
- be skating on thin ice idiom
- dare
- expose
- go for broke idiom
- have/put your head on the block idiom
- imperil
- jeopardize
- lay
- lay sth on the line idiom
- neck
- run the risk of doing sth idiom
- sail close to the wind idiom
- skate
- stick (sth) out
- stick your neck out idiom
- stunt
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Guessing, supposing and suspecting