dare

[DARE]

When you challenge or provoke someone to try something risky, it's a dare. If you accept a dare, you're probably trying to prove how brave you are.

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To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.

Noun
a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy; "he could never refuse a dare"

Verb
challenge; "I dare you!"

Verb
take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission; "How dare you call my lawyer?"

Verb
to be courageous enough to try or do something; "I don''t dare call him", "she dares to dress differently from the others"

v. i.
To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.

v. t.
To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.

v. t.
To challenge; to provoke; to defy.

n.
The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash.

n.
Defiance; challenge.

v. i.
To lurk; to lie hid.

v. t.
To terrify; to daunt.

n.
A small fish; the dace.

Dare

Dare , v. i. [imp. Durst or Dared ; p. p. Dared; p. pr. & vb. n. Daring.] [OE. I dar, dear, I dare, imp. dorste, durste, AS. ic dear I dare, imp. dorste. inf. durran; akin to OS. gidar, gidorsta, gidurran, OHG. tar, torsta, turran, Goth. gadar, gada'a3rsta, Gr. tharsei^n, tharrei^n, to be bold, tharsy`s bold, Skr. Dhrsh to be bold. &root;70.] To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.

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.

&hand; 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. Skeat.

The pore dar plede (the poor man dare plead).

You know one dare not discover you.

The fellow dares nopt deceide me.

Here boldly spread thy hands, no venom'd weed Dares blister them, no slimly snail dare creep.

&hand; Formerly durst was also used as the present. Sometimes the old form dare is found for durst or dared.

Dare

Dare, v. y. [imp. & p. p. Dared; p. pr. & vb. n. Daring.] 1. 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.

2. To challenge; to provoke; to defy.

Time, I dare thee to discover Such a youth and such a lover.

Dare

Dare, n. 1. The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash. [R.]

It lends a luster . . . A large dare to our great enterprise.

2. Defiance; challenge.

Childish, unworthy dares Are not enought to part our powers.

Sextus Pompeius Hath given the dare to C'91sar.

Dare

Dare, v. i. [OE. darien, to lie hidden, be timid.] To lurk; to lie hid. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Dare

Dare, v. t. To terrify; to daunt. [Obs.]

For I have done those follies, those mad mischiefs, Would dare a woman.

To dare larks, to catch them by producing terror through to use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them. Nares.

Dare

Dare, n. [See Dace.] (Zo'94l.) A small fish; the dace.

To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.

To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.

The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash.

To lurk; to lie hid.

To terrify; to daunt.

A small fish; the dace.

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Usage Examples

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.

As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?

For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different.

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.