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1.nounThe chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss."He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life."
2.nounAn obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally."The video game involves guiding a character on a skateboard past all kinds of hazards."
3.noun(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.
4.nounA sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
5.nounThe act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
6.nounA game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
7.nounChance.
8.nounAnything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
9.nounThe side of the court into which the ball is served.
10.nounA problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
11.verbTo expose to chance; to take a risk.
12.verbTo risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on."I'll hazard a guess."