Hazard

Noun

 * 1)  A type of game played with dice.
 * 2) Chance.
 * 3) *2006, John Patterson, The Guardian, 20 May 06:
 * I see animated movies are now managing, by hazard or design, to reflect our contemporary reality more accurately than live-action movies.
 * 1) The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
 * 2) *2009, Barbara Ellen, The Guardian, 27 Dec 09:
 * Quite apart from the gruesome road hazards, snow is awful even when you don't have to travel.
 * 1) 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.

Verb

 * 1) To expose to chance; to take a risk.
 * I'll hazard a guess.
 * 1) To incur or venture.

Adjectives for Hazard
structural; lessened; unreasonable; reduced; glorious; industrial; temporary; human; intrinsic; specified; extreme; blind; skidding; physical; tremendous; awful; extraordinary; perilous; dust.

Verbs for Hazard
avoid—; dally with—; dare—; doubt— eliminate—; expose to—; face—; incur— obviate—; overcome—; preserve from— risk—; run—; stand—; stake on—; venture —; view—; —allures; —endangers; —obstructs; —perils; —threatens; curiously; oddly; strangely; queerly; peculiarly; particularly; unpleasantly; unintelligibly; incomprehensibly; intentionally; deliberately; perilously; vexatiously; darkly; nebulously; uncertainly; foggily.

Synonyms for Hazard
risk, venture, peril, accident, danger, chance, casualty, fortune, jeopardy, luck, fate, adventure, contingency, fluke, gamble, possibility, uncertainty, likelihood, presumption, hope, fear.

Antonyms for Hazard
certainty, surety, assurance, fact, decision, determination, proof, reality, confidence, conviction, trust, reliance, security, actuality, truth, realization, plan, necessity, protection, safeguard, safety.

Derived terms

 * biohazard
 * chemical hazard


 * hazardous
 * moral hazard


 * multihazard
 * occupational hazard

Thesaurus
accident, adventure, ante, ante up, assume, attempt, back, bechance, befall, bet, bet on, betide, bingo, block, blockade, book, bottleneck, brave, breakers ahead, calculated risk, call, card games, cardhouse, casualty, catch, cause for alarm, chance, chance hit, chance it, chuck and toss, chuck farthing, chuck-a-luck, chunk, come, come along, compromise, contingency, contingent, cordon, court destruction, cover, crack-loo, crap game, crap shooting, craps, crisis, curtain, danger, dangerous ground, dare, defy danger, desultoriness, determent, deterrent, difficulty, drawback, emergency, encounter danger, endanger, endangerment, expose, face up to, fade, fan-tan, flier, fluke, forget the odds, fortuity, fortune, freak accident, gamble, gamble on, gamble with, gaping chasm, gathering clouds, handbook, hang-up, hap, happen, happen along, happen by chance, happening, happenstance, hitch, horse racing, house of cards, hurdle, imperil, imperilment, incur danger, infirmity, insecurity, insolidity, instability, insubstantiality, jeopard, jeopardize, jeopardy, joker, keno, lay, lay a wager, lay down, lay open, long odds, long shot, lotto, luck, lucky shot, make a bet, make bold, make free, meet a bet, menace, objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, one small difficulty, parlay, pass, peril, perilousness, pinball, pinch, pitch and toss, play, play against, play with fire, plight, plunge, policy, pop up, precariousness, predicament, presume, pretend, punt, put in danger, put in jeopardy, quicksand, rely on fortune, risk, riskiness, rocks ahead, rouge et noir, roulette, rub, run a chance, run the chance, run the risk, see, set at hazard, shakiness, shell game, shiftiness, shiftingness, shot, slipperiness, snag, speculation, speculativeness, stake, stand pat, storm clouds, strait, stumbling block, stumbling stone, sweepstake, sweepstakes, take a chance, take a flier, take chances, take the liberty, tempt Providence, tempt fortune, the numbers, the numbers game, thin ice, threat, threaten, ticklishness, treacherousness, treachery, trente-et-quarante, trust to chance, try the chance, turn up, unauthenticity, unauthoritativeness, uncertainty, undependability, unfaithworthiness, unreliability, unsolidity, unsoundness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsubstantiality, unsureness, untrustworthiness, venture, wager

Etymology
From hasard: (noun), hasarder: (verb), probably from  زهر:.

Noun

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Verb

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Noun

 * , chiefly used before 1800

Noun

 * 1)  lights (on a vehicle)

Noun
(plural: hazards)


 * 1) gambling

Noun

 * 1) gamble, gambling
 * 2) risk, hazard