Synonyms of the word jeopardize


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jeopardize

  • v. (US) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.

adventure

  • n. The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are…
  • n. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
  • n. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
  • n. (uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
  • n. (video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
  • n. (obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
  • n. (obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.
  • n. (obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
  • v. (transitive) To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
  • v. (transitive) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
  • v. (intransitive) To try the chance; to take the risk.

be

  • v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
  • v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
  • v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
  • v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
  • v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
  • v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
  • v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
  • v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
  • v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
  • v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
  • v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

endanger

  • v. (transitive) To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To incur the hazard of; to risk; to run the risk of.

exist

  • v. to be; have existence; have being or reality.

hazard

  • n. (historical) A type of game played with dice.
  • n. Chance.
  • n. The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
  • n. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
  • n. (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
  • n. (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing…
  • n. (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
  • v. To expose to chance; to take a risk.
  • v. To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.

imperil

  • v. (transitive) To put into peril; to place in danger or cause a hazard.
  • v. (transitive) To risk.

jeopardise

  • v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of jeopardize.

menace

  • n. a perceived threat or danger.
  • n. the act of threatening.
  • n. an annoying and bothersome person.
  • v. To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.
  • v. To threaten (an evil to be inflicted).
  • v. To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize.

peril

  • n. A situation of serious and immediate danger.
  • n. Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
  • n. (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk.

risk

  • n. A possible, usually negative, outcome, e.g., a danger.
  • n. The likelihood of a negative outcome.
  • n. (Formal use in business, engineering, etc.) The potential (conventionally negative) effect of an event,…
  • v. (transitive) To incur risk (of something).
  • v. (transitive) To incur risk of harming or jeopardizing.
  • v. (transitive) To incur risk as a result of (doing something).

stake

  • n. A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven…
  • n. A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer,…
  • n. (with definite article) The piece of timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned.
  • n. A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
  • n. That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
  • n. A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths,…
  • n. (Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical…
  • v. (transitive) To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
  • v. (transitive) To pierce or wound with a stake.
  • v. (transitive) To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
  • v. (transitive) To provide another with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business…

threaten

  • v. To make a threat against someone; to use threats.
  • v. To menace, or be dangerous.
  • v. To portend, or give a warning of.
  • v. (figuratively) To be close to equaling or surpassing (a record, etc.).

venture

  • n. A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
  • n. An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.
  • n. The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
  • v. (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
  • v. (transitive) To risk or offer.
  • v. (intransitive) to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at or on.
  • v. (transitive) To put or send on a venture or chance.
  • v. (transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
  • v. (transitive) To say something.

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