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/dˈɛrɪŋ/ Listen

adjective

Daring adj. Bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits.

verb

Dare v. t. (past & past part. dared; pres. part. daring)

1.

To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake. "What high concentration of steady feeling makes men dare every thing and do anything?" "To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes."

2.

To challenge; to provoke; to defy. "Time, I dare thee to discover Such a youth and such a lover."

Dare v. i. (past durst or dared; past part. dared; pres. part. daring) To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture. "I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none." "Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Bacause they durst not, because they could not." "Who dared to sully her sweet love with suspicion." "The tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood, because a partisan was more ready to dare without asking why." Note: The present tense, I dare, is really an old past tense, so that the third person is he dare, but the form he dares is now often used, and will probably displace the obsolescent he dare, through grammatically as incorrect as he shalls or he cans. "The pore dar plede (the poor man dare plead)." "You know one dare not discover you." "The fellow dares not deceive me." "Here boldly spread thy hands, no venom'd weed Dares blister them, no slimy snail dare creep." Note: Formerly durst was also used as the present. Sometimes the old form dare is found for durst or dared.

noun

Daring n. Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.

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— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... I answered; "they shut the door in my face—Babet is in pain and in tears." We gazed at one another, not daring to utter a word. We listened in agony, without taking our eyes off Babet's window, endeavouring to see through the little white curtains. My uncle, who was trembling, stood still, with both his hands resting heavily on his walking-stick; ...

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