Commit and Hazard

• (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
• (v.t.) To confound.
• (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
• (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
• (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
• (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
• (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.

verb

• Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
  • usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
  • synonyms: perpetrate, pull
• Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
  • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
• Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
  • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
• Confer a trust upon.
  • usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
  • synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
• Make an investment.
  • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • synonyms: invest, put, place
• Engage in or perform.
  • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
  • synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

noun

• A source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune.
  • usage: "drinking alcohol is a health hazard"
  • synonyms: jeopardy, peril, risk, endangerment
• An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another.
  • usage: "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance"
  • synonyms: luck, fortune, chance
• An obstacle on a golf course.

verb

• Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation.
  • usage: "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"
  • synonyms: guess, venture, pretend
• Put at risk.
  • usage: "I will stake my good reputation for this"
  • synonyms: venture, adventure, stake, jeopardize
• Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome.
  • usage: "When you buy these stocks you are gambling"
  • synonyms: gamble, chance, risk, take chances, adventure, run a risk, take a chance

• (n.) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
• (n.) To venture to incur or bring on.
• (n.) Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
• (v.i.) To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.
• (n.) The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
• (n.) To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
• (n.) Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
• (n.) A game of chance played with dice.
• (n.) Any place into which the ball may not be safely played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand or other kind of bad ground.

(DoD) A condition with the potential to cause injury, illness, or death of personnel; damage to or loss of equipment or property; or mission degradation. See also injury; risk.