venture
/ˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ/ verb C2- To undertake a risky or daring journey.
- To risk or offer. · to venture funds· to venture a guess
- To dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success.
- To put or send on a venture or chance. · to venture a horse to the West Indies
- To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
- To say something; to offer an opinion.
He/she/it ventures · Past ventured · Past participle ventured · -ing form venturing
Verb forms
- Base form
- venture
- He/she/it
- ventures
- Past
- ventured
- Past participle
- ventured
- -ing form
- venturing
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He is the most estimable, the most trustworthy creature in the world, and I will venture to say, there is not a better seaman in all the merchant service.
“Sire,” said Villefort, “the usurper is detested in the south; and it seems to me that if he ventured into the south, it would be easy to raise Languedoc and Provence against him.”
My health forbade me from venturing out unless the weather was exceptionally genial, and I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.
However, scarcely was the imperial power established—that is, scarcely had the emperor re-entered the Tuileries and begun to issue orders from the closet into which we have introduced our readers,—he found on the table there Louis XVIII.’s half-filled snuff-box,—scarcely had this occurred when Marseilles began, in spite of the authorities, to rekindle the flames of civil war, always smouldering in the south, and it required but little to excite the populace to acts of far greater violence than the shouts and insults with which they assailed the royalists whenever they ventured abroad.
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