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Definition of Dare
Dare

To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.

To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.

To challenge; to provoke; to defy.

The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash.

Defiance; challenge.

To lurk; to lie hid.

To terrify; to daunt.

A small fish; the dace.

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Dare Quotations

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Ovid

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas A. Edison

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson

Dare Translations

dare in Afrikaans is waag
dare in Danish is vove
dare in Dutch is zich vermetelen, wagen
dare in French is aventurer
dare in German is wagen, sich getrauen
dare in Portuguese is desafio
dare in Spanish is atreverse, reto


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