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The word for today is…
jeopardise (verb):
: to expose to danger or risk
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : Today’s word will get no comment from me, but I don’t expect others will be so restrained.
It may be hard to believe that jeopardise was once controversial, but in 1870 a grammarian called it “a foolish and intolerable word,” a view shared by many 19th-century critics. The preferred word was jeopard, which first appeared in print in the 14th century. (The upstart jeopardise turned up in 1582.) In 1828, Noah Webster himself declared jeopardise to be “a modern word, used by respectable writers in America, but synonymous with ‘jeopard,’ and therefore useless.” Unfortunately for the champions of jeopard, jeopardise is now much more popular.
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