Synonyms for jeopardies
- compromise
- defy
- endanger
- imperil
- jeopardize
- adventure
- beard
- brave
- chance
- confront
- dare
- encounter
- face
- gamble
- hazard
- jeopardy
- meet
- menace
- peril
- plunge
- speculate
- tackle
- venture
- wager
- be caught short
- defy danger
- expose to danger
- go out of one's depth
- hang by a thread
- leap before looking
- leave to luck
- play with fire
- put in jeopardy
- run the chance
- run the risk
- skate on thin ice
- take a flyer
- take a header
- take a plunge
- take on
- take the liberty
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Still there are pretty grave and anxious drawbacks, jeopardies, fears.
WORD ORIGIN
c.1300, ioparde (13c. in Anglo-French), from Old French jeu parti, literally "a divided game, game with even chances," from jeu "a game" (from Latin iocus "jest;" see joke (n.)) + parti, past participle of partir "to divide" (see part (v.)). Originally "a stratagem;" sense of "danger, risk" is late 14c.
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