- an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- something causing unavoidable danger, peril, risk, or difficulty: The many hazards of the big city did nothing to convince her to leave.
- the absence or lack of predictability; chance; uncertainty: There is an element of hazard in the execution of the most painstaking plans.
- a bunker, sand trap, or the like, constituting an obstacle.
- the uncertainty of the result in throwing a die.
- a game played with two dice, an earlier and more complicated form of craps.
- any of the winning openings.
- (in English billiards) a stroke by which the player pockets the object ball (winning hazard ) or their own ball after contact with another ball (losing hazard ).
- to offer (a statement, conjecture, etc.) with the possibility of facing criticism, disapproval, failure, or the like; venture: He hazarded a guess, with trepidation, as to her motives in writing the article.
- to put to the risk of being lost; expose to risk: In making the investment, he hazarded all his savings.
- to take or run the risk of (a misfortune, penalty, etc.): Thieves hazard arrest.
- to venture upon (anything of doubtful issue): to hazard a dangerous encounter.
- at risk; at stake; subject to chance: His reputation was at hazard in his new ventures.
- exposure or vulnerability to injury, loss, evil, etc
- at risk; in danger
- a thing likely to cause injury, etc
- an obstacle such as a bunker, a road, rough, water, etc
- chance; accident (esp in the phrase by hazard)
- a gambling game played with two dice
- real tennis
- the receiver's side of the court
- one of the winning openings
- a scoring stroke made either when a ball other than the striker's is pocketed (winning hazard) or the striker's cue ball itself (losing hazard)
- to chance or risk
- to venture (an opinion, guess, etc)
- to expose to danger
