noun
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A challenge to prove courage.
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The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.
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Defiance; challenge.
verb
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To have enough courage (to do something).
example
I wouldn't dare argue with my boss.
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To defy or challenge (someone to do something)
example
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
example
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.
verb
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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.
noun
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A small fish, the dace.
Examples of dares in a Sentence
Who dares take on the spirits of the motley crew?
Oh you heavens, dares any so noble beare a guilty busines!
She is quick to fire back at anyone who dares to criticize her.
To shuffle on with aching limbs Each burning step repeating " Who dares wins " !
A taxpayers ' revolt is in full swing, but no senior politician dares to step forward to lead it.
Classes sit in silence, they copy out texts, no pupil dares to even slightly transgress.
The genealogy of Locrine, king of Britain, is traced back to Noah, through Aeneas, and the chronicler relates the incidents of the Trojan war as told by Dares the Phrygian.
So whether a guy just wants to make his lash line a little fuller, or dares to wear a permanent Jack Sparrow liner look, there's no time like the present for men to embrace their own style!.
Truth or dare is the ultimate game for this party; just be sure dares are safe if people are drinking.
The cute camo print is trimmed in black and is sure to please anyone who dares to wear it.
Simply put, WW's website adheres to the maxim that "sex sells", and you'll be hard pressed to find another online swimsuit shop that dares to bare as much flesh as this one.
The show dares to be different with episodes that will feature just two characters for the full half-hour.
This can be accomplished by creating two bags of paper slips, one with "truth questions" and one with "dares" for guests to pick from as they play.
The grosser the better - Put chocolate pudding in a diaper to look like pretend baby poop, and see who dares to eat it.
Science fiction or speculative fiction dares the possible, the impossible and the improbable in every subgenre.
For every adventure beyond the horizon, there is a planet, a plane or sphere where the imagination dares to travel.
I could never fathom how a man dares to lift up his voice to speak in a large assembly.
But when he finally dares to try to stop the insanity, he winds up in a desperate fight for survival.
Anna Sargent dares to enter the dragons lair... Here be dragons!
Who dares me for a game of tic tac toe?
The pink here is so electric; it almost dares onlookers to comment.
Its chief interest lies in the fact that (together with Dares Phrygius's De excidio Trojae) it was the source from which the Homeric legends were introduced into the romantic literature of the middle ages.
They appear early in the year, or, as Shakespeare says, "come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty."
The patriarch of Constantinople dares not excommunicate Russia, but the chief of its many grievances against that country is its patronage of the Bulgarian exarchate.
La Bruyere dares not pronounce against such beliefs, "for there are perplexing facts affirmed by grave men who were eye-witnesses."
Pete runs a garage where deception runs deeper than anyone dares admit.
In the later story, according to Dares and Dictys, he was said to have treacherously opened the gates of Troy to the enemy; in return for which, at the general sack of the city, his house, distinguished by a panther's skin at the door, was spared by the victors.
And thou art more foolish and unreasonable than a little child, who, playing with the parts of a skillfully made watch, dares to say that, as he does not understand its use, he does not believe in the master who made it.