Definitions for Hazard

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Hazard haz·ard

Spelling: [haz-erd]

IPA: /ˈhæz ərd/

Hazard is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in Hazard (aadhrz).

Definitions for Hazard

noun

1. an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable:
2. something causing unavoidable danger, peril, risk, or difficulty:
3. the absence or lack of predictability; chance; uncertainty:
4. Golf. a bunker, sand trap, or the like, constituting an obstacle.
5. the uncertainty of the result in throwing a die.
6. a game played with two dice, an earlier and more complicated form of craps.
7. Court Tennis. any of the winning openings.
8. (in English billiards) a stroke by which the player pockets the object ball (winning hazard) or his or her own ball after contact with another ball (losing hazard)

Idioms

1. at hazard, at risk; at stake; subject to chance:

verb (used with object)

1. to offer (a statement, conjecture, etc.) with the possibility of facing criticism, disapproval, failure, or the like; venture:
2. to put to the risk of being lost; expose to risk:
3. to take or run the risk of (a misfortune, penalty, etc.):
4. to venture upon (anything of doubtful issue):

Origin of Hazard

1250-1300; Middle English hasard Old French, perhaps Arabic al-zahr the die

Examples for Hazard

The hazard gang is a multi-generational gang based in the East Los Angeles area.

hazard ratios were largest for benzodiazepines—the most commonly prescribed drug class.

War was a game of hazard, in which the luck was always changing.

Also omitting smoking status and body mass index increases the hazard ratio to 1.20 (95 percent CI, 1.15–1.24).

The firefighters did not want the ambulatory passengers to chance onto an electrified rail or encounter some other hazard.

Games of address are not to be put upon a footing with games of hazard.'

I soon determined that the good which appeared on the other was not worth this hazard.

Well, nothing venture, nothing have; I will brave the hazard!

But Oceana residents have still found ways to inject the newer version, despite the hazard controls.

I'd suggest, at a hazard guess, some place in the interior of Pennsylvania.