0 past simple and past participle of venture
1 to risk going somewhere or doing something that might be dangerous or unpleasant, or to risk saying something that might be criticized:
Such an analysis was more subversive in thinkers who ventured to apply it to the internal structure of the state.
Indeed, they could have been even more ambitious and ventured further into the territory of development beyond the age of four years.
On one or two occasions he has even ventured beyond the customary conjunctions to use the conjunctive adverb however.