Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Dare   /dɛr/   Listen
Dare

verb
1.
Take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission.  Synonyms: make bold, presume.
2.
To be courageous enough to try or do something.  "She dares to dress differently from the others"
3.
Challenge.  Synonym: defy.
noun
1.
A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.  Synonym: daring.



Related search:
take a dare


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar




"Dare" Quotes from Famous Books



... experimental mode of education. "Surely," says Miss Edgeworth, "it would be doing good service to bring into a popular form all that metaphysicians have discovered which can be applied to practice in education. This was early and long my father's object. The art of teaching to invent—I dare not say, but of awakening and assisting the inventive power by daily exercise and excitement, and by the application of philosophic principles to trivial occurrences—he believed might be pursued with infinite advantage ...
— The Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 1 • Maria Edgeworth
... not do that?" said he, imploringly, joining his hands as if in supplication; "after being openly warned by me, you dare not burden your soul with such a terrible responsibility. Come, my child, does not the possibility of committing a mortal sin alarm your conscience ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... had existed, or we did not know that there were many black and pied kinds, I dare say that we should have thought that the green color was a beautiful adaptation to hide this tree-frequenting bird ...
— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley
... that I had the good fortune to be afraid to entertain came, as it were, from within. There was a dare-devil fellow whom, as I know him to be dead, I feel justified in naming Jack Harris. He was engaged in all manner of speculative ventures on his own account, but the special agent had so frequently employed him in "enterprises of great pith and moment" that ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce • Ambrose Bierce
... dare you, presumptuous boy, seek to excuse him! A good birching, for which you are not too old, would teach you that reverence and respect for a clergyman which ...
— Ridan The Devil And Other Stories - 1899 • Louis Becke


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Dictionary One.com