/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