risk
verb [T] /rɪsk/Definition
B2 to do something although there is a chance of a bad result: "It's dangerous to cross here." "I'll just have to risk it." [+ -ing verb] He risked losing his house when his company went bankrupt.Taking risksGambling and bookmaking B2 If you risk something important, you cause it to be in a dangerous situation where you might lose it: I'm not risking my life (informal neck) in that old car. He risked life and limb to get the cat down from the tree. She was prepared to risk everything on a last throw of the dice.Taking risksGambling and bookmaking
(Definition of risk verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a drowning man will clutch at a straw idiom
- a leap in the dark idiom
- adventurer noun
- be skating on thin ice idiom
- chance your arm idiom
- flirt with sth phrasal verb (DANGER)
- gamble on sth phrasal verb
- go for broke idiom
- have/put your head on the block idiom
- hazard verb
- play chicken idiom
- play with fire idiom
- pull a stunt idiom
- put your head over/above the parapet idiom
- put/lay sth on the line idiom
- take your life in your hands idiom
- tempt fate/providence idiom
- up the ante idiom
- venture on/upon sth phrasal verb
- venture verb
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