v. [f. JEOPARD v. or JEOPARD-Y + -IZE.] trans. To put into jeopardy; to jeopard.
1646. N. B[arnet], Regenerate man’s growth in Grace, 47. We doe … Jeoperdize our soules safety.
1828. Webster, Jeopardize … (This is a modern word used by respectable writers in America, but synonymous with jeopard, and therefore useless.)
1834. Sir H. Taylor, 2nd Pt. Artevelde, III. ii. That he should jeopardize his wilful head Only for spite at me!
1846. Trench, Mirac., xx. (1862), 330.
1862. Stanley, Jew. Ch. (1877), I. xiii. 246. Ready to jeopardise their lives for the nation.
1885. S. L. Lee, in Dict. Nat. Biog., I. 13/1. Abbot found it difficult to steer a course that should not jeopardise either his loyalty or his honesty.
Hence Jeopardized ppl. a., exposed to risk.
1864. Skeat, trans. Uhland’s Poems, 328. No one would bide, But fast to his jeopardized fort did ride.
1898. Westm. Gaz., 4 May, 2/3. A new terror has been added to the already jeopardised existence of the German journalist.
