hazardizev.
/ˈhazədʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈhæzərˌdaɪz/ Now somewhat rare.
transitive. To put at hazard; to jeopardize, 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
?a1616 Tom a Lincoln (1992) 51 Wee sweare our lifes to hazardize to rid thy feare.
1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer vi. 339 We will hazardize Our peace, our fame, and our posterities.
1631 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlewoman 49 They make you idolize your selues, and..hazardize the state of your soules.
1657 G. Wither Suddain Flash 46 'Twill hazzardize Their Restauration, to think otherwise.
1865 Leeds Intelligencer 13 May 7/5 It impairs and hazardizes its [sc. the Bible's] Divine authority as uniformly and collectively the Word of God.
1898 New Ireland Rev. July 280 Ruth was exceeding loth to allow the newly-arisen Invalid to hazardise his full Recovery by so soon leaving his Room.
1914 Engineer 4 Dec. 536/3 It is astonishing that men and women..should hazardise not only their own lives but those of their companions.
1997 T. Dyja Play for Kingdom (1998) ii. 12 You think I'm some gutter bountyman about to hazardize my life for a weasely three hundred dollars?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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