how dare she, you, etc.!
dare
noun[ C ]
uk /deər/ us /der/
something you do because someone dares you to: 在激将法的作用下做出的事，应他人挑战而做出的事
as a dare He jumped in the river at twelve o'clock last night as a dare.
for a dare UKHe climbed up the tree for a dare after a night out with friends.
on a dare USOn a dare, she slept in a room that is said to be haunted by the ghost of Lord Nelson.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Competing and contending (non-sporting)
as a dare
be one up on someoneidiom
cat
catchup
challenge someone to something/do something
get one up on someoneidiom
give someone/something a run for their moneyidiom
go in for something
go toe to toeidiom
hyper-competitive
jungle
pit
runner
runners and ridersidiom
sharp elbowsidiom
sharp-elbowed
sharpen (something) up
sharpen your elbowsidiom
snap
toe

dare | American Dictionary

dare
verb
us/deər/

dareverb (BE BRAVE)

present tensedares or dare
to be brave enough to do something difficult or dangerous or that you should not do:
[ T ]She wouldn’t dare go out alone there at night.
[ I ]He wanted to touch it, but he didn’t dare.
[ +to infinitive ]I can’t believe you dare to talk to me this way!

dareverb (ASK)

[ T ]
to ask someone to do something that involves risk:
I dare you to ask him to dance.
dare
noun[ C ]
us/der, dær/

darenoun[C] (BRAVE ACT)

something difficult or dangerous that you do because someone asks you to do it:
He jumped into the river on a dare.

Examples of dare

dare
What, we dare ask, could possibly be causing this?
No sovereign government would dare to issue debt without being rated by one or both of the agencies.
And nowhere had anyone dared monumentality on the scale of the great platform and tiled vaults soaring 15 storeys into the air above.
They dared not come out boldly for protective tariffs, or even for any considerable increase in imperial preference.
I guess this makes these other major scholars and publications also guilty of "fraud" and other related sins by daring to publish such thoughts!
Prior to 1910, plantation managers 'did not dare to report all deaths'.
The powerful resources of the digital universe allow the mental edifices of daring architects to be translated seamlessly into physical ones.
Without knowing more about the particulars -for instance, about engineers'concepts of pendulums - one cannot dare to give a definitive answer in this case.
There are still small differences both between models and variables, so one would not dare to draw any conclusion, if the two patterns were close.
Until very recently, indirect communication about 'the love that dares not speak its name' has been normative in most settings.
He brings in the nation-state, national literatures, the debts to revolutions and the shared, daring belief in progress.
I dare say specialists in other fields could find aspects to pick on too.
The upshot is that anyone who dares to question any item in these tables has to redo the entire research for themselves.
Ultimately the two societies, through confrontation and co-operation, remained more closely entwined than either would have cared or dared to admit.
He formulated the project of composing some; he dared to be a creator.
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