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hazardous
/ˈhæ.zɚ.dɪs/
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What does hazardous mean?
adjective
- Risky; dangerous; with the nature of a hazard.
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adjective
- (rare) Of or involving chance.
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Then he could get no assistance from the big aeroplane firms, who sought to dissuade him from his hazardous undertaking.
We went, as usual, to our several fields of labor, but with bosoms highly agitated with thoughts of our truly hazardous undertaking.
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It is hazardous to play poker with them, but their ingenuity adds a peculiar excitement to the best game in the world.
To portray these would be the work of a poet, and it is hazardous for any but a poet to attempt it.
In the hands of careful, quick-witted, nervy men the sailing of an airship should be no more hazardous than the sailing of a yacht.