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dare

/dair/US // dɛər //UK // (dɛə) //

敢于,大胆,敢,敢于担当

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
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    dared or durst [durst]; /dɜrst/; dared;daring;present singular 3rd person dares or dare.

    • : to have the necessary courage or boldness for something; be bold enough: You wouldn't dare!
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    dared or durst [durst]; /dɜrst/; dared;daring;present singular 3rd person dares or dare.

    • : to have the boldness to try; venture; hazard.
    • : to meet defiantly; face courageously.
    • : to challenge or provoke into a demonstration of courage; defy: to dare a man to fight.
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    • : to have the necessary courage or boldness to: How dare you speak to me like that? He dare not mention the subject again.
n.名词 noun
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    • : an act of daring or defiance; challenge.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbchallenge, defy someone
Forms: dared, daring

What does dare mean?

While the word dare is used widely and variously for bold behavior, a dare popularly refers to a silly or risky challenge a person is compelled to do as part of children’s games.What are some other forms of dare?double dareWhat are some other words related to dare?truth or daregame on

Examples

  • The man who removed the dolphin from the Indus River that Jabbar and his colleagues were trying to save told a judge he was responding to an impromptu dare by a friend.

  • In defiance, I held my ticket above my head, which triggered the spitting and chants of “How Dare You!”

  • Despite the 21 years I did in prison for a drug conviction, I am assimilating back into mainstream or, dare I say, white America.

  • We feel their strangeness when we read their words—they lived on a plane where few dare to tread.

  • While it may not leave you with many profound truths, I dare you not to fall in love.

  • He adds: “None of the fighters will dare touch it, if an emir has given permission.”

  • None other would dare to show herself unveiled to a stranger, and a white man at that.

  • I never dare venture over except as the guest of some more fortunate friend.

  • I do not know—I do not dare to believe—that I shall live to hear that key grating in the lock.

  • She would not dare to choose, and begged that Mademoiselle Reisz would please herself in her selections.

  • For accurate work the best instruments are the von Fleischl-Miescher and the Dare.