Another word for dare
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Verb
To have the courage to put forward, as an idea, especially when rebuff or criticism is likely
- To lay claim:
- To give a false appearance of; feign:
- To take upon oneself; venture:
- To act presumptuously or take unwarranted advantage of something:
- To venture without authority or permission; dare:
- To take upon oneself without permission or authority; dare (to say or do something); venture
- To expose to danger; chance; risk
- To venture (something):
- To attempt or venture
See also:To call on another to do something requiring boldness
- To resist completely in a baffling way
- To challenge or dare (someone) to do something:
- To be beyond the application or scope of; be contrary or resistant to:
- To take exception to; call into question; dispute:
- To confront or struggle with (something) as a test of one's abilities:
- To summon to action, effort, or use; stimulate:
Idioms:See also:To confront boldly and courageously
- To have a front; face onto something else:
- To serve as a front for.
- To face; be opposite to
- To line or trim the edge of, especially with contrasting material:
- To occupy a position with the face toward:
- To bring or to be brought face to face with:
- To challenge or dare (someone) to do something:
- To resist completely in a baffling way
- To oppose or resist with boldness and assurance:
- To confront or struggle with (something) as a test of one's abilities:
- To summon to action, effort, or use; stimulate:
- To take exception to; call into question; dispute:
- To defy; dare
- To make a courageous show or put up a stalwart front.
- To endure or face courageously:
- To confront boldly.
- To furnish with a beard.
- To face or oppose courageously or brazenly, as if grasping by the beard; defy
See also:
Noun
An act of taunting another to do something bold or rash
- An act or statement of defiance; a call to confrontation:
- (Law) A formal objection or exception to a person who has been chosen as a prospective juror
- A call to engage in a contest, fight, or competition:
See also:
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Another word for dare
Verb
To be courageous
- (Idiomatic) To deal with a matter in a direct manner, especially to confront a difficulty rather than avoid it.
- (Idiomatic) to be courageous; to regain one's courage
- To subject to trials, annoyance, etc.; afflict
- To attempt to open (a door or window) in testing to see whether it is locked
- To taste, sample, or otherwise test in order to determine strength, effect, worth, or desirability:
- To make an effort to do, get, have, etc.; try; endeavor
- To try to perform, make, or achieve:
- (Archaic) To try to seize or get control of by attacking.
- To mark the location or limits of with stakes. Often used with out:
- To gamble or risk; hazard:
- To establish (a claim) in this way
- To give a promise or pledge that; contract
- (Informal) to overtake on the wrong side.
- To deliberately begin to do (something):
- To put in danger; risk; venture
- To venture upon; undertake or try:
- (Intransitive) To try the chance; to take the risk.
- To act presumptuously or take unwarranted advantage of something:
- To venture without authority or permission; dare:
- To take upon oneself without permission or authority; dare (to say or do something); venture
- To expose to the chance of injury, damage, or loss; hazard
- To incur the risk of:
- To incur the risk of
- (Obs.) To boast
- To face with courage
- To make a courageous show or put up a stalwart front.
- To have the fortune, good or bad
- To leave to chance; risk
- To take the risk or hazard of:
- To venture (something):
- To expose to danger; chance; risk
- To attempt or venture
- (Idiomatic) To risk; to try something risky.
To defy
- (Idiomatic) to accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one's actions
- (Idiomatic) To confront an adversary in his or her own environment
- (Informal, literally) To make a car go faster, accelerate.
- (Idiomatic) To insist, demand, or refuse.
- To confront a condition or situation, typically one that is unpleasant or uncomfortable.
- To mimic or resemble closely:
- In a false or insincere manner
- To hold up to scorn or contempt; ridicule
- To make (one's way) aggressively.
- To behave like a bully
- To force one's way aggressively or by intimidation:
- To inform against (someone); accuse publicly.
- (Obs.) To announce, esp. in a menacing way
- To give formal notice of the ending of (a treaty, armistice, etc.)
- To refuse or reject with contempt or disdain; scorn
- (Archaic) To kick at or tread on disdainfully.
- (Archaic) To push or drive away contemptuously with or as with the foot
- To express or use threats.
- To cause (someone) to feel that his or her power, social standing, or self-esteem is in danger of being diminished:
- To express a threat against or give indications of taking hostile action against:
- To take action to defeat or thwart (an invading or occupying military force).
- To take action in opposition to; try to eliminate, reduce, or stop:
- To withstand; oppose; fend off; stand firm against; withstand the action of
- (Obsolete) To make an attack on.
- To affront or demean:
- To treat or speak to with scorn, insolence, or great disrespect; subject to treatment, a remark, etc. that hurts or is meant to hurt the feelings or pride
- To reject or refuse with derision:
- To consider or treat as contemptible or unworthy:
- To consider or reject (doing something) as beneath one's dignity:
- To provide with coping:
- To contend or strive, especially on even terms or with success:
- (Archaic) To meet, as in a contest; encounter
- (Obs.) To boast
- To endure or face courageously:
- To make a courageous show or put up a stalwart front.
- To pay little or no attention to
- To treat without proper respect or attentiveness.
- To show no evidence of attention concerning (something):
- To contend with in speech or action; resist; withstand
- To present in counterbalance or contrast:
- To set as an opposite in position:
- To stir to action or feeling:
- To give rise to; bring about:
- To bring about deliberately; induce:
- (Linguistics) To cause (a vowel) to be pronounced farther toward the front of the oral cavity.
- To meet; confront
- To serve as a front for.
- To come face to face with, especially with defiance or hostility:
- To bring face to face (with)
- To face; stand or meet face to face
- To come into conjunction with; join or touch:
- To come together:
- To deal or contend with effectively:
- To bring a legal case testing the validity of an action, particularly by the government.
- To summon to action, effort, or use; stimulate:
- To take exception to; call into question; dispute:
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