hazard
noun
an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable.
hazarded
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past participleof hazard.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof hazard.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
hazardnounan unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable.
Example Sentences
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I hazarded a number of guesses as to where the movement, and more importantly the reaction to it, was headed.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2022
Edward Holmes does not like making predictions, but last year he hazarded a few.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 19, 2021
He wrote: “The prophecy may be hazarded that we shall conform in time, one word in -re after another changing to -er; but we prefer in England to break with our illogicalities slowly.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2019
He hazarded that the onscreen manhunt was between seventy and eighty per cent as intense as the real thing.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 15, 2017
“If a black cat crosses your path, you’ll have bad luck,” hazarded Tendai.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
