to hazard a guess

  • 21hazard — [n1] danger double trouble*, dynamite, endangerment, hot potato*, imperilment, jeopardy, peril, risk, risky business*, thin ice*, threat; concept 675 Ant. protection, safeguard, safety hazard [n2] luck, chance accident, adventure, coincidence,… …

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  • 22guess — [n] belief, speculation assumption, ballpark figure*, conclusion, conjecture, deduction, divination, estimate, fancy, feeling, guesstimate*, guesswork, hunch*, hypothesis, induction, inference, judgment, notion, opinion, postulate, postulation,… …

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  • 23guess — I n. 1) to hazard, make a guess 2) a lucky; random, wild; rough; shrewd guess 3) a guess that + clause (it is only a guess that she will be appointed) II v. 1) to guess shrewdly; wildly 2) (D; intr.) to guess at (to guess at smb. s age) 3)… …

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  • 24hazard — haz|ard1 [ˈhæzəd US ərd] n [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: hasard game of chance played with dice , from Arabic az zahr the chance ] 1.) something that may be dangerous, or cause accidents or problems hazard to/for ▪ Polluted water… …

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  • 25guess — guessable, adj. guesser, n. guessingly, adv. /ges/, v.t. 1. to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person s weight. 2. to estimate or conjecture… …

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  • 26hazard — hazardable, adj. hazarder, n. hazardless, adj. /haz euhrd/, n. 1. an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards. 2. something causing unavoidable danger, peril, risk, or difficulty: the many hazards of… …

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  • 27hazard — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big, great, major, real, serious ▪ constant ▪ possible, potential …

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  • 28guess — Synonyms and related words: account as, answer, appraise, appreciate, assess, assume, assumption, be afraid, believe, blind bargain, blind guess, bold conjecture, borderline case, bottom, call, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, chance, class,… …

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  • 29take a guess — guess, try to answer, hazard a guess    How old are you? Take a guess …

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  • 30hazard — [ˈhæzəd] noun [C] I something that could be dangerous or could cause damage a fire/radiation/traffic hazard[/ex] Pollution is a major health hazard (= something that is dangerous to your health).[/ex] II verb [T] hazard [ˈhæzəd] to make a guess… …

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