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say it: der
dare is a verb and noun meaning "take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission". It is pronounced /ˈdɛɹ/ — der. It carries 4 recorded senses.
to be courageous enough to try or do something
“I don't dare call him”
“she dares to dress differently from the others”
challenge
“I dare you!”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dare come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.