<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.</li><li>something causing unavoidable danger, peril, risk, or difficulty: The many hazards of the big city did nothing to convince her to leave.</li><li>the absence or lack of predictability; chance; uncertainty: There is an element of hazard in the execution of the most painstaking plans.</li><li>fortuitousness, fortuity, accident.</li><li>a bunker, sand trap, or the like, constituting an obstacle.</li><li>the uncertainty of the result in throwing a die.</li><li>a game played with two dice, an earlier and more complicated form of craps.</li><li>any of the winning openings (in English billiards).</li><li>a stroke by which the player pockets the object ball winning hazard or their own ball after contact with another ball losing hazard.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>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.</li><li>to put to the risk of being lost; expose to risk: In making the investment, he hazarded all his savings.</li><li>to take or run the risk of (a misfortune, penalty, etc.): Thieves hazard arrest.</li><li>to venture upon (anything of doubtful issue): to hazard a dangerous encounter.</li></ul>