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    dare
    /dɛː/

    verb

    • 1. have the courage to do something: "a story he dare not write down" Similar be brave enoughhave the couragepluck up couragetake the risk
    • 2. defy or challenge (someone) to do something: "she was daring him to disagree" Similar challengeprovokegoadtaunt

    noun

    • 1. a challenge, especially to prove courage: "she ran across a main road for a dare"

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  3. to be brave enough to do something difficult or dangerous, or to be rude or silly enough to do something that you have no right to do: I was going to ask if his dog was better, but I didn't dare in case she had died.

  4. The meaning of DARE is to be sufficiently courageous to. How to use dare in a sentence.

  5. A dare is a challenge which one person gives to another to do something dangerous or frightening. [...]

  6. Dare (sense 1) usually forms negatives and questions like an ordinary verb and is followed by an infinitive with to. It is most common in the negative: I didn’t dare to ask.

  7. DARE meaning: 1. to be brave enough to do something difficult or dangerous, or to be rude or silly enough to do…. Learn more.

  8. 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. When you challenge your friend to a dare, you dare him. You might, for example, dare your brother to jump off the garage into a pile of leaves.

  9. 1. To have the courage required for: The gymnast dared a breathtakingly difficult move. 2. To challenge (someone) to do something requiring boldness: They dared me to dive off the high board. 3. To confront boldly; brave: dared the dizzying heights of the mountain. See Synonyms at defy. v.intr.

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