dare
/dɛ(ə)ɹ/ noun C2- A challenge to prove courage. · I did it just for a dare.
- The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.
- Defiance; challenge.
- In the game truth or dare, the choice to perform a dare set by the other players. · When asked truth or dare, she picked dare.
Plural dares
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“No, I cannot do that,” she replied, “but I will give you my kiss, and no one will dare injure a person who has been kissed by the Witch of the North.”
“Don’t you dare to bite Toto!
Meanwhile, the Eagle, full of fear of the Sow, sat still on the branches, and the Sow, terrified by the Eagle, did not dare to go out from her cave.
And when the crows saw him they were frightened, as these birds always are by scarecrows, and did not dare to come any nearer.
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