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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dare.

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Examples

  • But now that you have dared -- _dared_ to insult me and my family in such a way, I will tell you what I will do.

    Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann

  • Symes dared not -- _dared_ not, she told herself -- enforce his threats.

    The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • I heard them many, many days ago -- yet I dared not -- I _dared not speak_!

    Initial Studies in American Letters 1886

  • As if forcing himself to relax, Riker took a deep breath, but his expression dared Vaughn to prove him wrong.

    The Battle of Betazed Charlotte Douglas 2002

  • As if forcing himself to relax, Riker took a deep breath, but his expression dared Vaughn to prove him wrong.

    The Battle of Betazed Charlotte Douglas 2002

  • As the bloodshed of the 19th century gave way to the bloodshed of the 20th century, Twain dared to observe that there has never been a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose ...

    Cynthia Wachtell: An American Tradition of War and War Protest Cynthia Wachtell 2010

  • As the bloodshed of the 19th century gave way to the bloodshed of the 20th century, Twain dared to observe that there has never been a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose ...

    Cynthia Wachtell: An American Tradition of War and War Protest Cynthia Wachtell 2010

  • As the bloodshed of the 19th century gave way to the bloodshed of the 20th century, Twain dared to observe that there has never been a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose ...

    Cynthia Wachtell: An American Tradition of War and War Protest Cynthia Wachtell 2010

  • As the bloodshed of the 19th century gave way to the bloodshed of the 20th century, Twain dared to observe that there has never been a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose ...

    Cynthia Wachtell: An American Tradition of War and War Protest Cynthia Wachtell 2010

  • In adapting the French text, Marin dared to think small and the chamber ensemble and chorus here indeed make much more of much less.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

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