jeopardize

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

JEOPARDIZE, verb transitive jep'ardize. To expose to loss or injury; to jeopard. [This is a modern word, used by respectable writers in America, but synonymous with jeopard and therefore useless.]
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