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- verb archaic Second-person singular present simple form of
dare
Etymologies
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Examples
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That answer came easily enough: it's some colloquial form of "darest" - "dares" - as in "Nobody dares blame this man."
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Let's add another sacred entitlement that darest never get reformed or reigned in because social security, medicare, and medicaid aren't bankrupting us fast enough!
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Who darest challenge their pro market driven coven ?
Cartoon: Martin Rowson on George Osborne's bright, progressive new dawn 2011
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“In what is he holier than I am?” said the Grand Master. — “Hermit, prophet, madman — say, if thou darest, in what thou excellest me?”
The Talisman 2008
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He then fixed his eyes on the stranger, and said, in a menacing tone, “I think thou darest not betray me or deceive me?”
The Monastery 2008
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Do I not know, thou filthy weaver of rotten worsted, that thou durst no more cross the threshold of thy own door, if thy wife heard of thy making such a boast, than thou darest cross naked weapons with a boy of twelve years old, who has drawn a sword for the first time of his life?
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Believe it, and record it, if thou darest, in thy book, that Alexius
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Every sort of woe betide thee, if with gurgling trill thou darest — but, as says the text: Let be!
Peer Gynt 2008
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Every sort of woe betide thee, if with gurgling trill thou darest — but, as says the text: Let be!
Peer Gynt 2008
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“And I will break thy young pate,” said Adam, “if thou darest to lift a finger to me.”
The Abbot 2008
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