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jeopardise

jeopardise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of jeopardize.

Meaning of jeopardize

Verb

jeopardize (third-person singular simple present jeopardizes, present participle jeopardizing, simple past and past participle jeopardized)

  1. (US, transitive) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.
    • After having an affair with a junior, her chances of promotion were seriously jeopardized.

Forms of jeopardise

third-person singular presentjeopardises
present participlejeopardising
past participlejeopardised
pastjeopardised

Origin of jeopardise

From jeopardy + -ise.

Questions about jeopardise

What is jeopardise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Jeopardise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of jeopardize.

Words near jeopardise in the dictionary

  1. jeoparders
  2. jeopardied
  3. jeopardies
  4. jeoparding
  5. jeopardisation
  6. jeopardise
  7. jeopardised
  8. jeopardises
  9. jeopardising
  10. jeopardization
  11. jeopardizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jeopardise (page history and authors); jeopardize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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