noun
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A challenge to prove courage.
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The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.
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Defiance; challenge.
verb
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To have enough courage (to do something).
example
I wouldn't dare argue with my boss.
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To defy or challenge (someone to do something)
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I dare you (to) kiss that girl.
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To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to
example
Will you dare death to reach your goal?
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To terrify; to daunt.
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To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them.
Examples of dare in a Sentence
Don't you dare leave me here.
Don't dare to say it was her fault.
How dare you say he is dishonorable?
I did not dare to ask about him.
And don't you dare go in that mine!
Don't you dare, Pierre!
She didn't dare turn around, not certain she'd be able to witness Toni throwing herself at Xander without laughing at him.
When Carnot's arrest was demanded in May 1 795, a deputy cried "Will you dare to lay hands on the man who has organized victory?"
That's an area where I wouldn't even dare to speculate.
But if they venture on such falsehoods while I am still alive, how much more when I am gone will those who come after me dare to do so!"
She'd never learned to lie; in fact, she would never dare lie to Mr. Tim, not with his rigid sense of integrity.
A thrill went through her at the silent dare.
It's like a dare.
For this independence he was severely scourged by the 'Abbasid governor, who, apparently, did not dare to go beyond scourging with a man of his standing with the people.
The major-domo to whom these entreaties were addressed, though he was sorry for the wounded, resolutely refused, saying that he dare not even mention the matter to the count.
The Cornish knights (who in Arthurian romance are always represented as hopeless cowards), dare not contest his claim but Tristan challenges him to single combat, slays him and frees Cornwall from tribute.
I have respected posterity; and should there be a posterity which cares for letters, I dare to hope that it will respect me."
The chief literature of all the heretical sects throughout the ages has been that of apocryphal Biblical narratives, and the popes Jeremiah or Bogumil are directly mentioned as authors of such forbidden books "which no orthodox dare read."
She didn't have to ask him to know he didn't dare confront Xander about it.
Dean didn't dare say he hadn't noticed and described the tall red head in general terms.
When Lucien pressed him to "dare," he replied "Alas, I have dared only too much already."
The fry of clupeoids, which likewise swim in schools, are followed by the mackerel until they reach some shallow place, which their enemies dare not enter.
Don't dare to say it was her fault to pretend to be someone she wasn't.
He declared that he did not wish to remember her existence and warned her not to dare to let him see her.
She wished to pray but did not dare to, dared not in her present state of mind address herself to God.
Yes, I dare say, that's the way they'll let you pass...
He didn't dare cross the divide between them, not when he'd known he was about to kill her.
Sirian's knowledge of what happened when two demons possessed one host was not one he would dare share.
They protested that they would rather die than dare to transgress the wisdom of the laws; and Pilate yielded.
Montmorin did not dare to come to a decision without consulting his masterful friend, but on the other hand neither Mirabeau nor La Marck were under any illusions as to the broken character of the reed on which they had perforce to lean.
He hoped for assistance from the friendly Nabataeans; but, as they owed everything to their position as middlemen for the South-Arabian trade, which a direct communication between Rome and the Sabaeans would have ruined, their viceroy Syllaeus, who did not dare openly to refuse help, sought to frustrate the emperor's scheme by craft.
But above all Denisov must not dare to imagine that I'll obey him and that he can order me about.
From Xander, however, it was a dare.
How dare he show such disrespect to his audience.
To some of the Linnaean genera he dare not, however, assign a place, for instance, Buceros, Haematopus, Merops, Glareola (B risson's genus, by the by) and Palamedea.
Before the introduction of the decimal monetary system the peseta was the fifth part of a peso dare, which was equal to 20 re i/es de velion, or rather more than a 5-franc piece.
You dare challenge a full demon?
He threw on a jacket and left, aware Sasha couldn.t leave the castle grounds without forfeiting his life and wouldn.t dare disrupt the Immortals for fear of Kris.s wrath.
I find it funny you demons spend your days looking for ways to break the Code then dare quote it to me.
His character is the exact antithesis of Dan Dare's.
You will find yourselves wondering how those brave men dare to sail those waters in such fragile caravels!
How dare he have his coffin draped with a Union Flag at his funeral.
But this garbage, having passed tho a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
Who would dare attack Britain's most ruthless gangster?
Do you dare Can you dare To pigeon hole me With the rest of common clay?
The city government has banned private wells and made rainwater harvesting obligatory, but does not dare to enforce the law.
He also took a prominent part in the proceedings which followed the Kentish petition, and was the author, some say the presenter, of the Legion Memorial, which asserted in the strongest terms the supremacy of the electors over the elected, and of which even an irate House of Commons did not dare to take much notice.
The bigwigs here think so too, but they daren't say so.
Their search for the truth will lead them to shadowy realms where very few dare to go.
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