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Definition of Challenge
Challenge

An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.

The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.

A claim or demand.

The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.

An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause.

An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.

To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.

To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat.

To claim as due; to demand as a right.

To censure; to blame.

To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?"

To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.

To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court.

To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter.

To assert a right; to claim a place.

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Challenge Quotations

I like the fact that there is challenge.
Keren Ann

If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it.
Chuck Zito

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Acting is always a challenge.
Robert Downey, Jr.

I used to not back down from a challenge.
Elizabeth Moon

Challenge Translations

challenge in Afrikaans is uitdaging
challenge in Danish is udfordre
challenge in Dutch is uittarten, tarten, uitdagen, trotseren
challenge in German is herausfordern, Herausforderung
challenge in Italian is sfidare, disfida
challenge in Norwegian is utfordring
challenge in Portuguese is desafio
challenge in Swedish is utfordra, utmana, utmaning


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