hazard

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.

   He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.

2. 2
   noun

   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. 3
   noun

   An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.

   Risk behavior in driving consists in hazard detection, threat appraisal, action selection and implementation. Hazard perception tests often include the task to react quickly to hazards within traffic scenarios.

4. 4
   noun

   A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.

   [T]here's Harry diets himself—for gaming and is now under a hazard Regimen.

5. 5
   noun

   Chance.

   I will stand the hazard of the die.

6. 6
   noun

   Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.

   But if you please To shoot another arrow that self way Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt, As I will watch the aim, or to find both Or bring your latter hazard back again And thankfully rest debtor for the first.

7. 7
   verb

   To expose to chance; to take a risk.

   to be consistent, you ought to be a Chriſtian in temper and practice; for you hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience

8. 8
   verb

   To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on.

   I'll hazard a guess.

Etymology

From Middle English hasard, from Old French hasart (“a game of dice”) (noun), hasarder (verb), from Arabic اَلزَّهْر (az-zahr, “the dice”). Compare Spanish azar, Portuguese azar.