hazard
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1. hazard - Noun
2. hazard - Verb
3. Hazard - Proper noun
Meaning
A game of chance played with dice.
The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
To venture to incur, or bring on.
To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known it.
Nazi Germany was so destructive to Judaism not only for the loss of life, but because many who survived began to see the practice of Judaism as somewhat of a health hazard.
Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one.