hazard "hazards, hazarding, hazarded"1. (N-COUNT, oft N to/for n, N of n) A hazard is something which could be dangerous to you, your health or safety, or your plans or reputation.E.X: A new report suggests that chewing-gum may be a health hazard.2. (VERB, = endanger) If you hazard someone or something, you put them into a situation which might be dangerous for them.E.X: He could not believe that, has the Englishman known how much he was at risk, he would have hazarded his grandson.3. (VERB) If you hazard or if you hazard a guess, you make a suggestion about something which is only a guess and which you know might be wrong.E.X: I would hazard a guess that they'll do fairly well in the next election.Hazardous(ADJ-GRADED, = dangerous, =/ safe) Something that is hazardous is dangerous, especially to people's health or safety.E.X: Passive smoking can be hazardous to health.By degrees(PHRASE, = gradually) If something happens by degrees,it happens slowly and gradually.E.X: The crowd in Robinson's Coffee-House was thinning, but only by degrees.Starvation(N-UNCOUNT, usu of/from N) Starvation is extreme suffering or death, caused by lack of food.E.X: Over three hundred people have died of starvation since the beginning of the year.
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