Dictionary Entry
hazard
hazard is a 6-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A game of chance played with dice. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 18 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A game of chance played with dice.
- 2noun
The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
- 3noun
Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
- 4noun
Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
- 5noun
Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
- 6noun
To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
- 7noun
To venture to incur, or bring on.
- 8intransitive verb
To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.
- 9noun
an obstacle on a golf course
- 10noun
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
"bad luck caused his downfall"
"we ran into each other by pure chance"
- 11noun
a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
"drinking alcohol is a health hazard"
Synonyms
- 12verb
put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
"I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"
"I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"
- 13verb
take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
"When you buy these stocks you are gambling"
- 14verb
put at risk
"I will stake my good reputation for this"
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