jeopardize, v.
(ˈdʒɛpədaɪz)
[f. jeopard v. or jeopard-y + -ize.]
trans. To put into jeopardy; to jeopard.
| 1646 N. B[arnet] Regenerate man's growth in Grace 47 We doe..Jeoperdize our soules safety. 1828 Webster, Jeopardize..(This is a modern word used by respectable writers in America, but synonymous with jeopard, and therefore useless.) 1834 Sir H. Taylor 2nd Pt. Artevelde iii. ii, That he should jeopardize his wilful head Only for spite at me! 1846 Trench Mirac. xx. (1862) 330. 1862 Stanley Jew. Ch. (1877) I. xiii. 246 Ready to jeopardise their lives for the nation. 1885 S. L. Lee in Dict. Nat. Biog. I. 13/1 Abbot found it difficult to steer a course that should not jeopardise either his loyalty or his honesty. |
Hence ˈjeopardized ppl. a., exposed to risk.
| 1864 Skeat Uhland's Poems 328 No one would bide, But fast to his jeopardized fort did ride. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 4 May 2/3 A new terror has been added to the already jeopardised existence of the German journalist. |