Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being hazardous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the state of being dangerous.
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- noun The condition of being
hazardous
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- noun the state of being dangerous
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Examples
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We halted, and he breathlessly told us General Hampton had ordered us to stop on account of the hazardousness of the journey.
The last flag of truce, Dallas Ward 1915
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Next she inquired whether I did not miss the tiger-shooting and pig-sticking; and I replied (with veraciousness, since I am not the _au fait_ in such sports) that I could not deny a liability to miss both tigers and pigs, and, indeed, all animals that were _feræ naturæ_, and she condemned the hazardousness of these jungle sports, and wished me to promise that I would abstain from them on my return to India.
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895
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Graye did a thing the blissfulness of which was only eclipsed by its hazardousness.
Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy 1884
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The increasing potency and hazardousness of cannabis, cocaine, opium and their derivatives stem directly from illegality.
openDemocracy 2010
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"The single most important feature of the Basel Convention is the commitment of member countries to a programme of action to limit and eliminate the production of hazardous wastes; to reduce the hazardousness of any waste by applying suitable technology; and to treat residual waste in the best practicable manner.
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