† enhazardv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To expose to hazard, to risk.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > endanger [verb (transitive)] > put at risk
to put in adventurec1300
jeopardc1374
wage?a1400
adventurec1400
jeopardy1447
enhazard1562
hazard1569
venture1575
impawn1613
hazardize?a1616
to put in or to a (or the) venture1638
risk1660
compromise1696
commit1738
compromit1787
to lay (or put) it on the line1968
1562 J. Shute tr. A. Cambini in Two Comm. Turcks i. f. 8 They..were willing to auoide the danger of anye more enhazarding their force.
1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 154 How often his State hath beene afflicted by him [the Turke], and sometimes enhazarded.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. ii. 417/2 The Citizens, and souldiers..to secure their liues from the fire, did enhazard them on the fury of the sword.
Derivatives
enˈhazarding n.
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1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 201 With the utter enhazarding of both Christendome and Christianity.
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