hazarded

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of hazard.

   The analyst hazarded a prediction about next year's housing market.

   Few experts had hazarded such a bold forecast before the results arrived.

   Note

   A regular verb, so one spelling covers both roles: she hazarded is the simple past, while had hazarded or was hazarded is the participle after an auxiliary. With an object like a guess, a prediction or a forecast, hazarded means ventured, offered at some risk of being wrong, rather than endangered. The same spelling also serves as the golf-course adjective, which describes ground set with obstacles, not a risk taken.

2. 2
   adjective

   Containing or set with hazards, especially obstacles such as water or bunkers on a golf course.

   The architects kept the fairway narrow and hazarded with water on both sides.

   The back nine, hazarded by deep bunkers and a winding creek, punishes any loose shot.

   Similarguarded, lined, flanked

   Note

   Sports and travel writing uses this word for a golf course. It follows its noun and takes a preposition naming the obstacles: a par 72 course hazarded with lakes and palm trees in Esquire (1973), and courses hazarded by plenty of ponds in Indianapolis Monthly (2000). It does not take more or most. Unlike the past tense of the verb, it implies no risk taken, only ground laid out with trouble.

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