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jeopardize

/ˈd͡ʒɛp.ə.dʌɪz/US/ˈd͡ʒɛp.ɚ.daɪz/

jeopardize verb: to put in jeopardy, to threaten.

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.
    • This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.1968, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey, spoken by HAL 9000

jeopardize meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

jeopardize in Tamil

அழிவுண்டாக்கு, இடருள்ளாக்கு, ஊறு விளைவி, கெடு

jeopardize in Bengali

বিপদগ্রস্ত করা, ক্ষতিগ্রস্থ করা, বিপদ, ঝুঁকি, ক্ষতি

jeopardize in Malayalam

endanger, threaten, imperil
അപകടത്തിലാക്കുക, അപകടത്തിൽപ്പെടുത്തുക, വട്ടത്തിലാക്കുക, അപായത്തിലാക്കുക, സംശയസ്ഥിതിയിലാക്കുക, ധർമ്മങ്കസങ്കടത്തിലാക്കുക

jeopardize in Kannada

ಕುತ್ತಕ್ಕೆ ಸಿಲುಕಿಸು, ಇಕ್ಕಟ್ಟಿಗೆ ತಳ್ಳು

Examples of jeopardize in a sentence

  • On the one hand, Trump’s clown car of bozos and boozers jeopardized national security.
  • The rise of ultradestructive weapons (biological and chemical as well as nuclear) has jeopardized life.
  • “It provides the legal basis for managing cyberactivity on China’s soil and resisting activities which jeopardize China’s cybersecurity.”

All 13 example sentences with jeopardize

Forms of jeopardize

third-person singular presentjeopardizes
present participlejeopardizing
past participlejeopardized
pastjeopardized
alternative formjeopardise

Past tense of jeopardize: jeopardized

Origin of jeopardize

From jeopardy + -ize.

Words formed from jeopardize

Questions about jeopardize

What does jeopardize mean?
Jeopardize means to put in jeopardy, to threaten.
What is jeopardize in Tamil?
Jeopardize in Tamil is அழிவுண்டாக்கு, இடருள்ளாக்கு, ஊறு விளைவி. See Jeopardize meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is jeopardize?
Jeopardize is a verb.
How do you pronounce jeopardize?
Jeopardize is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɛp.ə.dʌɪz/ (UK).
What is the past tense of jeopardize?
The past tense of jeopardize is jeopardized.

Words near jeopardize in the dictionary

  1. jeopardised
  2. jeopardises
  3. jeopardising
  4. jeopardization
  5. jeopardizations
  6. jeopardize
  7. jeopardized
  8. jeopardizer
  9. jeopardizers
  10. jeopardizes
  11. jeopardizing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: jeopardize (page history and authors); jeopardize (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jeopardize (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jeopardize (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); jeopardize (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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