dare

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• WordNet 3.6
  • v dare challenge "I dare you!"
  • v dare take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission "How dare you call my lawyer?"
  • v dare to be courageous enough to try or do something "I don't dare call him", "she dares to dress differently from the others"
  • n dare a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy "he could never refuse a dare"
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"TOUCH HIM IF YOU DARE."

"Peter dared not lift his head."

"Who dares kill Marius?"

Who are you who dare to knock at my door

• Interesting fact: Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" after his editor dared him to write a book using fewer than 50 different words.
• • n Dare (Zoöl) A small fish; the dace.
  • Dare Defiance; challenge. "Childish, unworthy dares Are not enought to part our powers.""Sextus Pompeius
    Hath given the dare to Cæsar."
  • Dare The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash. "It lends a luster . . . A large dare to our great enterprise."
  • Dare To challenge; to provoke; to defy. "Time, I dare thee to discover
    Such a youth and such a lover."
  • v. i Dare dâr To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.☞ The present tense, I dare, is really an old past tense, so that the third person is he dare, but the form he dares is now often used, and will probably displace the obsolescent he dare, through grammatically as incorrect as he shalls or he cans. "I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.""Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Bacause they durst not, because they could not.""Who dared to sully her sweet love with suspicion.""The tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood, because a partisan was more ready to dare without asking why.""The pore dar plede (the poor man dare plead).""You know one dare not discover you.""The fellow dares not deceive me.""Here boldly spread thy hands, no venom'd weed Dares blister them, no slimy snail dare creep."
  • Dare To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake. "What high concentration of steady feeling makes men dare every thing and do anything?""To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes."
  • v. i Dare To lurk; to lie hid.
  • v. t Dare To terrify; to daunt. "For I have done those follies, those mad mischiefs,
    Would dare a woman."
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• Interesting fact: In Delaware it is illegal to get married on a dare.
• • dare To be bold enough (to do something); have courage, strength of mind, or hardihood (to undertake some action or project); not to be afraid; venture: followed by an infinitive (with or without to) as object, or sometimes, by ellipsis, used absolutely.
  • dare [Originally and still often used in the third person of the present tense without a personal termination, and in such case always followed by the infinitive without to: as, he dare not do it.
  • dare To venture on; attempt boldly to perform.
  • dare To challenge; provoke to action, especially by asserting or implying that one lacks courage to accept the challenge; defy: as, to dare a man to fight.
  • dare To arouse; rouse.
  • n dare The quality of being daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash; spirit.
  • n dare A challenge; defiance.
  • dare To be in fear; tremble with fear; be stupefied or dazed with fear. Specifically
  • dare To lie still in fear; lurk in dread; especially, lie or squat close to the ground, like a frightened bird or hare; look anxiously around, as such a lurking creature.
  • dare To droop; languish.
  • dare To strike with fear; terrify; daunt; dismay.
  • dare To terrify and catch (larks), as by means of a mirror or a piece of red cloth, or by walking round with a hawk on the fist where they are crouching, and then throwing a net over them.
  • n dare A mirror for daring larks.
  • n dare Same as dace, 1.
  • n dare A Middle English form of deer.
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• Interesting fact: The past-tense of the English word "dare" is "durst".
• • v.i Dare dār to be bold enough: to venture
  • pa.t Dare durst
  • v.t Dare to challenge: to defy
  • n Dare (Shak.) boldness, a challenge
  • adj Dare unreasonably rash and reckless
  • n Dare boldness
  • v.t Dare dār to frighten, terrify.
  • Dare dār Same as Dace.
  • Dare dār a small river fish of the carp family, and of the same genus as the roach, chub, minnow, &c.
  • n Dare dār a small river fish of the carp family, and of the same genus as the roach, chub, minnow, &c.
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• Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

  

  “Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.”
• Horace

  

  “Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.”
• John Updike

  

  “Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.”
• Lord Alfred Tennyson

  

  “What rights are those that dare not resist for them?”
• Homer

  

  “And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.”
• Sir Walter Scott

  

  “The will to do, the soul to dare.”

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