Synonyms of risked

risked

verb

past tense of risk

1

as in ventured

to take a chance on

Colette didn't want to risk running out of food for her party, so she bought twice what she thought she would actually need

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ventured
• confronted
• tempted
• hazarded
• faced
• chanced
• dared
• exposed
• adventured
• endangered
• challenged
• gambled (on)
• braved
• jeopardized
• subjected
• imperiled
• compromised
• ran the risk of
• menaced
• brazened
• bearded
• defied
• breasted
• outbraved
• wagered
• bet (on)

2

as in endangered

to place in danger

we refuse to risk our life savings on this investment scheme

Synonyms & Similar Words

• endangered
• threatened
• jeopardized
• compromised
• imperiled
• ventured
• hazarded
• menaced
• periled
• gambled (with)
• jeoparded
• adventured
• intimidated
• subjected
• exposed
• wagered
• chanced

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• protected
• guarded
• saved
• preserved
• resumed
• shielded
• sheltered

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of risked

Giving medication without a doctor’s orders risked her license, Selph knew, but not doing anything risked the patient’s life. — Alana Semuels, Time, 10 Nov. 2026

Five shipper organizations later warned in a joint letter that the statements risked silencing critics. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 9 Nov. 2026

To have done nothing visible to mark remembrance would therefore have risked undermining his relationship with that very community at a crucial time. — Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Nov. 2026

My highest praise for the heroic police officers who risked their lives. — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2026

In certain communities, funeral practices included washing the body and sprinkling water on mourners, which risked exposing people to infected bodily fluids. — Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi, The Conversation, 5 Nov. 2026

Arizona’s Taiwanese immigrants have risked a lot in coming to America, staking their futures on a new project in an unknown place at a time of extreme nativist backlash. — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2026

The company had previously said a penalty in the billions of dollars risked violating its constitutional rights to due process and protection from excessive fines. — Reuters, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2026

Without such remedies, the turbines risked drastically spiking pollution in already vulnerable neighborhoods housing predominantly Black communities nearby, the NAACP argued. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026