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Gamble   /gˈæmbəl/   Listen
Gamble

noun
1.
Money that is risked for possible monetary gain.
2.
A risky act or venture.
verb
(past & past part. gambled; pres. part. gambling)
1.
Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome.  Synonyms: adventure, chance, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances.
2.
Play games for money.



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"Gamble" Quotes from Famous Books



... recent study that has revolutionized the psychology of the sense of smell, see Der Geruch, by Hans Henning, 1916, or a review of the same by Professor Gamble in the American Journal of Psychology, 1921, ...
— Psychology - A Study Of Mental Life • Robert S. Woodworth

... said that they were literally enslaved and scared into submission by dreadful pictures of hell and fear of everlasting torment. After church they would gamble, and they often lost everything, even wives and children. They were low, brutal, unintelligent, with an exceedingly limited vocabulary and an unbounded appetite. A man is as he eats, and, as some one says, "If a man eats peanuts he will ...
— A Truthful Woman in Southern California • Kate Sanborn

... astrologers, yet you utter a jargon as mysterious as theirs. I neither gamble nor quarrel; why, then, should I ...
— Zanoni • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... he, "but when this Hen Dorsett debate breaks loose I came back to earth. I'll gamble that the ...
— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

... Chia mansion, the half of whom were extravagant in their habits, so that great was, of course, his delight to frequent them. To-day, they would come together to drink wine; the next day to look at flowers. They even assembled to gamble, to dissipate and to go everywhere and anywhere; leading, with all their enticements, Hsueeh P'an so far astray, that he became far worse, by a hundred times, than he ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin


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