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HAZARDOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Involving risk or danger
Example:
a wild financial scheme
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
dangerous; unsafe (involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm)
Derivation:
hazard (a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune)
hazardousness (the state of being dangerous)
Context examples:
Cobalt blue production, however, requires a significant amount of a cobalt salt that is hazardous to humans and the environment.
(Chemists find path to 'new blue' in meteorite minerals, National Science Foundation)
It is classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid by the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Centre, although orbital calculations have found there is no risk of the asteroid colliding with the Earth.
(Biggest Asteroid Ever Detected Flies Past Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
That is saying too much: such hazardous affirmations are a proof of the excitement under which you labour.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Toxic at high concentrations, it reacts with moisture in the air to form nitric acid, highly corrosive and hazardous to plants and animals.
(Nitrogen Dioxide, NCI Thesaurus)
That brow was the brow of the public Charles Fox, the thinker, the philanthropist, the man who rallied and led the Liberal party during the twenty most hazardous years of its existence.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A person with formal training in basic medical knowledge and skills, certified (requirements vary by state) to respond and to provide a competent prehospital care and transportation to patients in emergency situations including but not limited to medical emergencies, hazardous materials exposure, child birth, abuse, fires, flood, accidents, trauma, and psychiatric crises.
(Emergency Medical Technician, NCI Thesaurus)
Nursing that focuses on observation and assessment of worker's health status with respect to job tasks and hazards, with a goal to recognize and prevent health effects from hazardous exposures and treat workers' injuries or illnesses.
(Occupational Health Nursing, NCI Thesaurus)
But he would not, and said that it would be a very hazardous thing; for if the least ray of the torch-light should fall upon him his enchantment would become still worse, for he should be changed into a dove, and be forced to wander about the world for seven long years.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The multistudy effort to investigate whether exposure to certain environmental factors (water quality, air pollution, electromagnetic fields, pesticides and other toxic chemicals, hazardous and municipal waste, etc.) contribute to the increased risk of breast cancer.
(Long Island Breast Cancer Study, NCI Thesaurus)
An individual trained and certified to provide all basic and intermediate life support measures in addition to using invasive medical procedures (including intravenous therapy, cardiac defibrillation, administering medications and solutions, and using ventilation devices) as dictated by state law and performed under medical control in case of medical emergencies, hazardous materials exposure, child birth, abuse, fires, flood, accidents, trauma, and psychiatric crises.
(Paramedic, NCI Thesaurus)
