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What does hazard mean?

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Noun
  1. (historical) A type of game played with dice. [from 14th c.]
  2. Chance. [from 16th c.]
  3. The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. [from 16th c.]
  4. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. [from 19th c.]
  5. (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
  6. (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
  7. (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
Verb
  1. To expose to chance; to take a risk.
  2. To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.
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