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hasarder

venture, hazard (a remark)

verb ah-zar-DEH Rare

Also means

risk, take a chance

Usage Note

Hasarder means to venture something cautiously, often used reflexively as se hasarder à ('to dare to, to venture to'). It has a formal or literary register. The root hasard ('chance, risk') gives related words like hasardeux ('risky') and par hasard ('by chance').

Examples

"Il osa se hasarder à parler."

Natural Translation

He dared to venture to speak.

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