Hazard danger peril exposure to loss, injury, or destruction. – Hazard of loss liabillity to loss in property. – To expose to risk, hazard, or peril to venture as, to risk goods on board of a ship to risk one’s person in battle to risk one’s fame by a publication. – To incur the risk or danger of as, to risk a battle. – To look with fierce, piercing eyes to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely. – To be bright and intense, as certain colors to be ostentatiously splendid or gay. – To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light. – A bright, dazzling light splendor that dazzles the eyes a confusing and bewildering light. – A smooth, bright, glassy surface as, a glare of ice. – Smooth and bright or translucent - used almost exclusively of ice as, skating on glare ice.įree from harm, injury, or risk untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury unharmed unhurt secure whole as, safe from disease safe from storms safe from foes. – Conferring safety securing from harm not exposing to danger confining securely to be relied upon not dangerous as, a safe harbor a safe bridge, etc. – Incapable of doing harm no longer dangerous in secure care or custody as, the prisoner is safe. – A strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of steel, etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for containing money, valuable papers, or the like. – A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects. – Fitted to excite horror dreadful hideous shocking hence, very offensive. Urged on hastened going or working at speed as, a hurried writer a hurried life. – Done in a hurry hence, imperfect careless as, a hurried job. – To move or act with haste to proceed with celerity or precipitation as, let us hurry. – The act of hurrying in motion or business pressure urgency bustle confusion. Having a very thin edge or fine point of a nature to cut or pierce easily not blunt or dull keen. – Terminating in a point or edge not obtuse or rounded somewhat pointed or edged peaked or ridged as, a sharp hill sharp features. – Affecting the sense as if pointed or cutting, keen, penetrating, acute: to the taste or smell, pungent, acid, sour, as ammonia has a sharp taste and odor to the hearing, piercing, shrill, as a sharp sound or voice to the eye, instantaneously brilliant, dazzling, as a sharp flash. – High in pitch acute as, a sharp note or tone. – Raised a semitone in pitch as, C sharp (C/), which is a half step, or semitone, higher than C. – So high as to be out of tune, or above true pitch as, the tone is sharp that instrument is sharp. – Very trying to the feelings piercing keen severe painful distressing as, sharp pain, weather a sharp and frosty air. – Cutting in language or import biting sarcastic cruel harsh rigorous severe as, a sharp rebuke. – Of keen perception quick to discern or distinguish having nice discrimination acute penetrating sagacious clever as, a sharp eye sharp sight, hearing, or judgment. – Eager in pursuit keen in quest impatient for gratification keen as, a sharp appetite. – Keenly or unduly attentive to one’s own interest close and exact in dealing shrewd as, a sharp dealer a sharp customer. – Composed of hard, angular grains gritty as, sharp sand. – Steep precipitous abrupt as, a sharp ascent or descent a sharp turn or curve. – Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone, without voice, as certain consonants, such as p, k, t, f surd nonvocal aspirated.
– To a point or edge piercingly eagerly sharply. – Precisely exactly as, we shall start at ten o’clock sharp. – The character used to indicate that the note before which it is placed is to be raised a half step, or semitone, in pitch.
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