Word Finder - daring

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To have enough courage (to do something).

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I wouldn't dare argue with my boss.

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To defy or challenge (someone to do something)

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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

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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.

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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.

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Boldness.

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Adventurous, willing to take on or look for risks; overbold.

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Courageous or showing bravery; doughty.

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Racy; sexually provocative.

Sofia stared up at him, not daring to hope he'd help her.

She saw the thaw from the cactus daring anyone to touch him to the man she'd spoken to on the phone.

Her gaze remained steady, daring him to do as he imagined.

What better place to be a bit more daring in life than on another planet?

The Malays of the coast are a maritime people, and were long famous for the daring character of their acts of piracy.

David's daring spirit might very well lead him to visit his wife even after his first flight.

Not daring to look round and without looking round, he was ecstatically conscious of his approach.

Though privateering was carried on by the French with daring and a considerable measure of success, it did not put an appreciable check on the growth of British merchant shipping.

I see a thousand of you, laughing, daring me.

Can it be possible? she thought, not daring to look at his face, but still feeling his eyes gazing at her.

By their sufferings no less than by their deeds of daring, her citizens showed themselves to be sublime, devoted and disinterested, winning the purest laurels which give lustre to Italian story.

The ancient guediks have not been abolished, the government not daring to deprive them of their privileges; but since the Tanzimat no new ones have been created, industry being declared free.

The hatred felt for him by Germans found expression in a daring attempt to murder him made by a well-bred youth named Staps on the 12th of October.

God is my witness, I didn't know-" he repeated, stressing the word "God" so unnaturally and so unpleasantly that Princess Mary stood with downcast eyes not daring to look either at her father or at Natasha.

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At one time, as in the case of Blechingdon, they would perform strange exploits worthy of the most daring hussars; at another their speed and tenacity paralyses armies.

By timely and daring intervention Scotland.

This is a great look for those that enjoy a little daring adventure.

He savored and toyed with her simultaneously, daring her to unleash the desire burning through her body.

The Church of Rome has discouraged these daring tactics in favour of the more cautious and probably more defensible positions of Aquinas.

Tony is quite daring; he gives it a shot.

But the little girl gave the angry kitten such a severe cuff that it jumped down again without daring to scratch.

While I followed them shopping I never imagined I'd be allotted the opportunity accomplish a daring strike so successfully and leave without a trace!

But the most remarkable and daring application of the theory was to account for the phenomena of organic life, especially in animals and man.

By a night march of unexampled daring and difficulty Ney succeeded in breaking through the Russian cordon, but when he regained touch with the main body at Orcha only Boo of his 6000 men were still with him (2 ist).

The English commander, thus foiled, executed a daring and skilful march round the enemy's flank, and on the 9th drew up for battle in rear of the hostile army.

By the advice of Prokesch-Osten and Ebtvos, he paid a visit in the following June to London; there his daring adventures and linguistic triumphs made him the lion of the day.

What were then called reports were rather appeals to the passions; in Saint-Just's hands they furnished the occasion for a display of fanatical daring, of gloomy eloquence, and of undoubted genius; and - with the shadow of Robespierre behind him - they served their turn.

Tired of the excesses committed by these Turks, the people of Bagdad beat or killed as many of them as they could lay hands on, and Motasim, not daring to act with severity against either his guard or the citizens, took the course of quitting the city.

Many public pools, and beaches set their own standards about what is acceptable attire, and some of the more daring men's and women's suits may not be welcome at every location.

A Malibu String bikini is one that is daring, sexy and seductive.

Skin-grafting and regeneration of bone are among not the least remarkable applications of pathological principles to the combat with disease in recent times; and in this connexion may also be mentioned the daring acts of surgery for the relief of tumours of the brain, rendered practicable by improved methods of localization.

If there had been no fighting daring these autumn months worthy of mention, much creditable work had been carried out by the invaders in respect to developing communications and to improving jetties and landing-places, especially at Suvla.

The attempt also of the daring highwayman Maternus to seize the empire was betrayed; but at last Eclectus the emperor's chamberlain, Laetus the praefect of the praetorians, and his mistress Marcia, finding their names on the list of those doomed to death, united to destroy him.

At times he showed qualities as a guerillero quite equal to those of the Carlists, like Zumalacarregui and Cabrera, by his daring marches and surprises.

In 1792 he acted as financial agent in a daring attempt to secure the escape of the king and queen from Paris.

McDowell, instead of marching to join McClellan, was ordered to the Valley to assist in "trapping Jackson," an operation which, at one critical moment very near success, ended in the defeat of Fremont at Cross Keys and of McDowell's advanced troops at Port Republic (June 8-9) and the escape of the daring Confederates with trifling loss.

Burnside and the new Army of the Ohio had now cleared east Tennessee and occupied Knoxville (September 2), and meanwhile Rosecrans by a brilliant movement, in which he displayed no less daring in execution than skill in planning, once more manoeuvred Bragg out of his position and occupied Chattanooga.

In 1800 he was appointed to the command of the "Speedy" brig, a small vessel in which he gained a great and deserved reputation as a daring and skilful officer.

His capture of the Spanish frigate "Esmeralda" (40) in the harbour of Callao, on the 5th of November 1820, was an achievement of signal daring.

No one ever excelled him in daring and resource as a naval officer, but he suffered from serious defects of character, and even those who think him guiltless of the charge on which he was convicted in 1814 must feel that he had his own imprudence and want of self-command to thank for many of his misfortunes.

After his victory over Banks at Cedar Mountain, near Culpeper, Virginia, Jackson led the daring march round the flank of General Pope's army, which against all theoretical rules ended in the great victory of second Bull Run.

Ancient myths are admitted without undergoing analysis; the most naïve realism alternates with daring efforts at spiritualizing.

The common soldiers were promoted for acts of daring, and the children of chiefs were regularly trained to war, and initiated by being sent into battle with veterans, with whose aid the youth took his first prisoner, but his future rise depended on how many captives he took unaided in fight with warlike enemies; by such feats he gained the dignity of wearing coloured blankets, tassels and lip-jewels, and reached such military titles as that of " guiding eagle."

Solemn and gay dances were frequent, and a sport called the bird-dance excited the admiration of foreigners for the skill and daring with which groups of performers dressed as birds let themselves down by ropes wound round the top of a high mast, so as to fly whirled in circles far above the ground.

On the other hand, daring and skilful leaders such as Francis Marion and Thomas Sumter kept the spirit of resistance alive by their sudden attacks and surprises of British outposts.

He was the finest swordsman in the army, and possessed that daring recklessness which is the most useful quality of leadership against Asiatics.

He first attracted public attention by his conduct in the parliament of 1504, by his daring opposition to the king's demand for money.

He distinguished himself in the expedition to Santo Domingo in many fights, and especially in a daring reconnaissance with few men into the heart of the enemy's lines, for which he got the cross with laurels of San Fernando.

His daring is illustrated by the story that he came by night to the temple of Athene "of the Brazen House" at Sparta, and there set up his shield with the inscription, "Dedicated to the goddess by Aristomenes from the Spartans."