hazard
Meaning of hazard
noun
- The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
- 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.
- (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.
- A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
- The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
- A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
- Chance.
- Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
- The side of the court into which the ball is served.
- 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.
- To expose to chance; to take a risk.
- 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:
Meaning guess:
Meaning venture:
venture, adventure, stake, jeopardize
Meaning gamble:
gamble, chance, risk, adventure
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Words that rhyme with hazard
Hazard, biohazard, enhazard, haphazard, mazard, nazard, perhazard, rehazard, AppWizard, Izard, Lizard, bewizard, grizard, izard, lizard, rizard, unvizard, vizard, wizard, Buzzard, Ezzard, blizzard, buzzard, dizzard, gizzard, gozzard, huzzard, izzard, mazzard, moorbuzzard, sizzard
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