disasters is a form of:
Hazard
noun
- 1.
- ~ (to somebody / something) (risk, danger, chance of damage or loss, risk, chance, an obstacle on a glof course, an early game of chance played with dice) hazard of the job គ្រោះថ្នាក់
- 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) គ្រោះថ្នាក់, ផ្សងគ្រោះថ្នាក់
verb — past tense: hazarded ; past participle: hazarded ; present participle: hazarding ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (To risk or venture, to leave to chance, to offer, to expose to risk) ផ្សងវាសនា, សំណាង, ចៃដន្យ, ឧបត្ដិហេតុ
Example: Papers placed near a furnace are a fire hazard, Golf courses have hazards to make the game harder, hazard a guess, a losing hazard.
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
- 2.
- A game of chance played with dice.
- 3.
- The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
- 4.
- Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
- 5.
- Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
- 6.
- Any place into which the ball may not be safely played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind of bad ground.
verb — past tense: hazarded ; past participle: hazarded ; present participle: hazarding ;
- 1.
- To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
- 2.
- To venture to incur, or bring on.
- 3.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.