hazard

Meaning of hazard

noun
  1. The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
    He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
  2. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
    The video game involves guiding a character on a skateboard past all kinds of hazards.
  3. (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.
  4. A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
  5. The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
  6. A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
  7. Chance.
  8. Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
  9. The side of the court into which the ball is served.
  10. 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
  1. To expose to chance; to take a risk.
  2. To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.
    I'll hazard a guess.

Information about hazard

  • The plural form of hazard is: hazards.
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Hyphenation of hazard

haz-ard

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • hazard is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

hazard synonyms

Meaning jeopardy:

jeopardy, peril, risk, endangerment

Meaning luck:

luck, fortune, chance

Meaning guess:

guess, venture, pretend

Meaning venture:

venture, adventure, stake, jeopardize

Meaning gamble:

gamble, chance, risk, adventure

Meaning :

bet, pledge, wager

Translation of hazard

Anagrams of hazard

Adzhar

Words that rhyme with hazard

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