dare vs hazard

dare

verb
  • To defy or challenge (someone to do something) 

  • To terrify; to daunt. 

  • To have enough courage (to do something). 

  • To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to 

  • To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them. 

noun
  • The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness. 

  • A challenge to prove courage. 

  • In the game truth or dare, the choice to perform a dare set by the other players. 

  • A small fish, the dace 

  • Defiance; challenge. 

hazard

verb
  • To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on. 

  • To expose to chance; to take a risk. 

noun
  • An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. 

  • A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results. 

  • The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard). 

  • A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c. 

  • Chance. 

  • An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it. 

  • The side of the court into which the ball is served. 

  • The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. 

  • A sand or water obstacle on a golf course. 

How often have the words dare and hazard occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )