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Throw down the gauntlet
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challenge
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Challenge is a 2009 Bengali romantic comedy directed by Raj Chakraborty . The film starres Dev and Subhashree Ganguly .The film is a remake of the 2003 Telugu film Dil For few scenes and music-videos, shooting was done in Dubai, Australia and New Zealand. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "to rebuke," from Old French chalongier "complain, protest; haggle, quibble," from Vulgar Latin calumniare "to accuse falsely," from Latin calumniari "to accuse falsely, misrepresent, slander," from calumnia "trickery" (see calumny ).\n \nFrom late ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Challenge \Chal"lenge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Challenged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Challenging .] [OE. chalengen to accuse, claim, OF. chalengier, chalongier, to claim, accuse, dispute, fr. L. calumniar to attack with false accusations. See Challenge , n., and cf. ...
Usage examples of challenge.
From the starboard bow Captain Abernethy shrilled a cry of warning, and the heavy, bellowing voice of Loge shouted an answer of challenge and ferocity.
Although Delaura had sought the support of distinguished members of his own order and even of other communities, none had dared challenge the acta of the convent or contradict popular credulity.
The prospect of Adams succeeding Washington had been ever-present for seven years, but now, separated again by hundreds of miles, they addressed themselves to the growing likelihood of his actually becoming President, exchanged thoughts and feelings on the challenge in a way that apparently they never had before, and that perhaps they would have found impossible except at a distance.
Then came the challenging letters from Henry Akeley which impressed me so profoundly, and which took me for the first and last time to that fascinating realm of crowded green precipices and muttering forest streams.
It was crucial that they file the paperwork in Albany and that Nathaniel pay the taxes as her husband, so that there could be no challenge to the validity of the deed of gift, or her status as a married woman.
Idosso would preen himself as one whom even mighty Amra dared not challenge.
The challenge was taking her mind from her personal problem, and that was good.
Though the first edition of the present work was quite large, yet no challenge of the accuracy of any of its statements concerning experimentation upon human beings or animals has yet appeared.
Lady Appleton had been heard to mutter that there were no challenges left at Leigh Abbey.
Even as tired as she was after the long journey, Susanna was ready to face the challenge of turning Appleton into a second home.
The work was less backbreaking and more challenging, if not physically, then cerebrally.
His feet were flipping and he yipped as if challenging some wolf badman in his dreams.
He liked the challenge of baggataway, the way it pushed him to his limits.
He ducked through them and worked his way up to the beakhead bulkhead, conscious just as he reached it that a French voice was shouting a challenge.
The challenge lies in making lasting behavioral changes that reduce input and increase output.