dare
IPA: dˈɛr
noun
- A challenge to prove courage.
- The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.
- Defiance; challenge.
- (games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to perform a dare set by the other players.
- A small fish, the dace
- A surname.
- Acronym of Drug Abuse Resistance Education.
- Acronym of Dictionary of American Regional English.
verb
- (intransitive) To have enough courage (to do something).
- (transitive) To defy or challenge (someone to do something)
- (transitive) To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to
- (transitive) To terrify; to daunt.
- (transitive) 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.
- (obsolete) To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified.
- (obsolete) To lie or crouch down in fear.
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Examples of "dare" in Sentences
- Strangle the fool that dares to scoff
- The tool dares the virus to enter the machine.
- He had dared to oppose the man in the elections.
- Opacity and gloom do not dare to counter the dawn.
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