challenge
/ˈt͡ʃæl.ɪnd͡ʒ/ verb B2- To invite (someone) to take part in a competition. · We challenged the boys next door to a game of football.
- To dare (someone).
- To dispute (something); to contest. · to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation
- To call something into question or dispute. · New information challenged old hypotheses.
- To make a formal objection to a juror.
- To be difficult or challenging for.
- To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines). · The sentinel challenged us with "Who goes there?"
- To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
He/she/it challenges · Past challenged · Past participle challenged · -ing form challenging
Verb forms
- Base form
- challenge
- He/she/it
- challenges
- Past
- challenged
- Past participle
- challenged
- -ing form
- challenging
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It is in poor taste to make a display of a challenge.
Albert understood the allusion in a moment, and was about to throw his glove at the count, when Morrel seized his hand, while Beauchamp and Château-Renaud, fearing the scene would surpass the limits of a challenge, held him back.
Mesdemoiselles Noblet, Julia, and Leroux executed the customary pirouettes; Robert duly challenged the Prince of Granada; and the royal father of the princess Isabella, taking his daughter by the hand, swept round the stage with majestic strides, the better to display the rich folds of his velvet robe and mantle.
If he were afterwards to marry Mademoiselle Danglars, you would accuse me of intrigue, and would be challenging me,—besides, I may not be there myself.”
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