Word Finder - dared

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To have enough courage (to do something).

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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

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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.

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To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified.

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To lie or crouch down in fear.

One look told me few kids had dared make fun of his name.

She drew as near as she dared without disturbing them.

Yet she dared not talk to him.

She moved as far as she dared from the rock, searching for him.

No one had ever dared hit him before.

None of them had ever dared ask this question.

She'd dared to hope again that everything was a hallucination brought on by too much alcohol, until Toby burst in chasing a cat she didn't remember owning.

No one dared to contradict him, so he brought in anyone he knew.

After patting her body as dry as he dared, Dean reached over and grabbed her night bag, pulling out her pajamas.

Jule trailed as closely as he dared.

Prince Andrew, too, dared not stir, for fear of betraying his unintentional presence.

She dared not stand on her own with the winds strong enough to knock her over.

He trusted the human, but dared he trust the mate of the Dark One?

Damian's son would be the first White God born outside of the immortal world, and not even Jule dared to guess what that would mean for the White God's power.

Castlereagh had left Vienna with the hope that the powers would solemnly guarantee their territorial settlement and promise to make collective war on whoever dared to disturb it.

The necessity for strengthening the Spanish forces in Africa had for some time been apparent; but Seor Maura had not dared to face the Cortes with a demand for the necessary estimates, for which, now that the crisis had become acute, he had to rely on the authorization of the council of state.

He replaced at Khartum Ismail Pasha Eyoub, a Turk made governor-general in 1873, who had thwarted as much as he dared all Gordon's efforts to reform.

While I dared not say it for fear of being accused of insensitivity, I wondered if the death of Gladys Gillespie might enhance her credibility, reducing the number of those chasing the real Psychic Tipster.

It was a cold day in hell when someone dared hang up on the White God, the Defender of Mankind, the Tamer of Evil.

But thanks to their quest for gold, the entire region was now traversed by hundreds of semi-navigable trails, open to those who dared venture from the blacktop of civilization to the timeless beauty of an unchanged world.

Or was this another Immortal Code he dared break, for the sake of another, and take whatever consequences came his way?

When he.d looked into Katie.s eyes and dared her to admit she didn.t love him, he.d seen everything he needed to know.

Romas could have convinced his brother to leave Kiera be, but now, with a blatant challenge from the prisoner, who had dared Kisolm to claim Kiera before he did … Romas trusted his brother, but Evelyn had seen the look on Kisolm's face when he looked at Kiera.

He felt helpless and ineffective in dealing with this scoundrel who dared grope his wife in Dean's own house!

Jule, the Original Immortal, was the only Guardian that dared set foot in Xander's home.

There was exemplary punishment of the printers who dared defy the Soviet government.

All ignorant we dared to own The joys we now dissemble; The greenfinch on the apple bough Could make my enemies tremble.

A case of blatant political censorship against those who dared question the council line?

He enumerates several instances of " hidden disciples " who dared not openly confess Christ.

And nobody has dared to seriously challenge it. · William Keegan is the Observer's senior economics correspondent.

Your teams have taken me to heights I never dared dream would be possible.

I had honestly never even dared hope to win.

Here's conclusive proof that the Brits are kinkier than anyone dared think really kinky.

Nietzsche dared to look into the abyss of modern nihilism.

How dared he who was he, to pray for one so spotless!

He dared not tarry longer within their magic circle.

Now, at the ripe old age of 54, actor Jane Seymour dared to go topless on screen for the first time.

No man dared utter a truth to which he felt himself indebted to his Soul alone.

The revolutionary terrorists took advantage of the situation to multiply outrages; popular agitation was fomented by a multitude of new journals preaching every kind of extravagant doctrine, now that the censor no The longer dared to act; in December the trouble "union culminated in a formidable rising in Moscow.

The Pharisees decided that they could not take action on either side, since the elder son of Alexandra was directed by the Idumaean Antipater; and the people had an affection for such Asmonean princes as dared to challenge the Roman domination of their ancestral kingdom.

They dared not stay in Seleucia, as this city, the most populous town of western Asia, always maintained her Greek self-government and a strong feeling of independence, which made her incline to the west whenever a Roman army attacked the Parthians.

No one dared to contradict him, and he brought into it whom he pleased.

In connexion with this work it must be remembered that Vambery could write down but a few furtive notes while with the dervishes, and dared not take a single sketch; but the weird scenes, with their misery and suffering, were so strongly impressed on his memory that his, book is convincing by its simplicity, directness and evidence of heroic endurance.

In the middle ages the church showed no hesitation about persecuting unto death all who dared to contradict her doctrine, or challenge her practice, or question her authority.

He dared not show himself in the streets without the protection of prize-fighters, while the jack-boot (a pun upon his name) and the petticoat, by which the princess was represented, were continually being burnt by the mob or hanged upon the gallows.

Charles was anxious for his brother's sake to bring the matter to a conclusion, but he dared not appear to stifle the plot; so, when starting for Newmarket, he left orders with Danby (see Leeds, Duke Of,) that he should finish the investigation at once.

Some would have smiled, if they had dared.

Prince Andrew longed to snatch up, to squeeze, to hold to his heart, this helpless little creature, but dared not do so.

In answer to Rostov's renewed questions, Denisov said, laughing, that he thought he remembered that some other fellow had got mixed up in it, but that it was all nonsense and rubbish, and he did not in the least fear any kind of trial, and that if those scoundrels dared attack him he would give them an answer that they would not easily forget.

Drooping in spirit and closing their eyes before the menacing cloud of death that overhung them, they dared not look life in the face.