Hazard

Hazard

/ˈhazərd/

Noun/Verb

noun

1. a danger, a risk

Our technological powers increase but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. 

– Alvin Toffler (1928-2016)

2. chance, probability

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

– Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

verb

3. To venture a guess or suggestion (often with uncertainty)

That is your problem now, if I may hazard a guess — to find the right relationship, now that you know yourself, between the self that you know and the world outside.

– A Letter to a Young Poet, by Virginia Woolf