hazard
noun
an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable.
had hazarded
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past perfectof hazard.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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If “Don’t Read Poetry” had hazarded more judgments about specific types of poems — appraising and not merely praising their structural, technical and thematic content — then Burt would have produced a much finer book.
From Washington Post ● May 30, 2019
The pamphlet was anonymous, but someone, presumably the lawyer, had hazarded a name: J Snare?
From The Guardian ● Jan. 3, 2016
When he had done the deed, and retired to his solitary abode at Bridman, he felt frightened at what he had hazarded, and trembled like a child at the idea of Mrs. Tracy's anger.
From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton
At all events, the high and constitutional grounds on which Mr. Fox defended the expressions he had hazarded, may well reconcile us to any risk incurred by their utterance.
From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Thomas Moore
But Bonaparte had hazarded his all upon this venture—he had counted upon the feeling of the armies of France.
From The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 by A. M. W. Stirling
