[
US
/ˈhæzɝdəs/
]
[ UK /hˈæzədəs/ ]
[ UK /hˈæzədəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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involving risk or danger
a wild financial scheme
extremely risky going out in the tide and fog
skydiving is a hazardous sport
How To Use hazardous In A Sentence
- Once upon a time there were three beautiful girls who went to a writing college, and they were each assigned very hazardous duties.
- Nanotechnology is in danger of being pigeonholed as a risky, hazardous and controversial business, a new study has found, because companies in the emerging field are not tackling the very real health and safety issues involved.
- These portable torches use pressurized tanks of propane and, if handled carelessly, can be hazardous.
- A contractor will remove ragwort, which is hazardous to many animals.
- The expansion of the SVHC list is part of a long term European Union strategy to regulate and limit the use of hazardous substances. THE MEDICAL NEWS
- Trenches are especially hazardous for workers because the lines of sight with equipment operators are obscured.
- It would be hazardous to invest so much.
- Gerhardt, after all, was trained -- trained to think and expound with minimum waste of words, fast and in hazardous circumstances. DARE CALL IT TREASON
- Projects already undertaken for pharmaceutical customers have involved removal of plant and equipment contaminated with low-levels of radioactivity and other hazardous materials.
- Some of the most hazardous chemicals are used in the cultivation of fruit or hops. The Residue Report - an action plan for safer food