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
First among the aims for which he had been striving, and to attain to which he had hazarded so much, there must have been the hope that she should make a brilliant match.
From The Street Called Straight by Lowell, Orson
For the first time in my experience of this pretty, little bunch of brains, she had hazarded a guess.
From The Million-Dollar Suitcase by MacGowan, Alice
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 Fullerton, Georgiana
