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      hazard
      noun
      The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
      An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
      Chance.
      (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
      (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
      (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
      (programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
      (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
      A home rule city, the county seat of Perry County, Kentucky, United States.
      A surname.
      (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
      (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
      verb
      To expose to chance; to take a risk.
      To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on.
      Roots
      azzahrhazard- · Arabic · dice
      Synonyms for hazard
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      The word hazard breaks down into one root of Arabic origin: the root hazard-, from Arabic azzahr (“dice”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.

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