dare

Meaning

1. To have enough courage (to do something).
2. To defy or challenge (someone to do something)
3. To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to
4. To terrify; to daunt.
5. To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them.

venture

be bold

be brave

be fearless

make bold

be audacious

be courageous

have the nerve

pluck up courage

throw down the gauntlet

be insolent

come up against

grow bold

judicial writ

need to

swear out

take upon oneself

woe to

go as far as

test of courage

be brassy enough to

be heroic

be intense

be plucky

be undaunted

be unshamed

face danger

reform one’s conduct

take adventure

take the risk

invite to contest

service of process

use courage

process of monition

have face

have the courage

be affected

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɛə(ɹ)/

From Middle English durren, from Old English durran, from Proto-West Germanic *durʀan, from Proto-Germanic *durzaną (“to dare”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰedʰórse (“to dare”), reduplicated stative of the root *dʰers- (“to be bold, to dare”), an *-s- extension of *dʰer- (“to hold, support”). Cognates Cognate with Low German dören, Dutch durven, German turren, Sanskrit दधर्ष (dadhárṣa), but also with Ancient Greek θρασύς (thrasús), Albanian nder, Lithuanian drįsti, Russian дерза́ть (derzátʹ).