“hazard” – English explanatory dictionary

noun a dangerous situation ○ Don’t leave those cardboard boxes in the passage – they’re a fire hazard. Synonym danger. Antonym safeguard □ at hazard at risk ■ verb to risk □ to hazard a guess to risk making a guess ○ I wouldn’t hazard a guess at how many people will come to the concert.

(haz´erd), n. [F. hasard, Sp. azar an unforeseen disaster or accident, an unfortunate card or throw at dice, prob. fr. Ar. zahr, zar, a die, which, with the article al the, would give azzahr, azzar.]
1. A game of chance played with dice. Chaucer.
2. The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty. “I will stand the hazard of the die.” Shak.
3. Risk; danger; peril; as he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life. “Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard.” Rogers.
4. (Billiards) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player’s ball (losing hazard).
5. Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. ´Your latter hazard.´ Shak. Hazard table, a table on which hazard is played, or any game of chance for stakes. — To run the hazard, to take the chance or risk. Syn. — Danger; risk; chance. See Danger.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hazarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Hazarding.] [Cf. F. hasarder. See Hazard, n.]
1. To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk. “Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience.” John Clarke. “He hazards his neck to the halter.” Fuller.
2. To venture to incur, or bring on. “I hazarded the loss of whom I loved.” Shak. “They hazard to cut their feet.” Landor. Syn. — To venture; risk; jeopard; peril; endanger.

(haz´erd), v. i. To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger. Shak.

n. (Golf) Any place into which the ball may not be safely played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind of bad ground.