The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adventure \Ad*ven"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adventured; p. pr. & vb. n. Adventuring.] [OE. aventuren, auntren, F. aventurer, fr. aventure. See Adventure, n.]
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To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
He would not adventure himself into the theater.
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To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
Yet they adventured to go back.
--Bunyan,Discriminations might be adventured.
--J. Taylor.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: adventure)
Usage examples of "adventured".
I consider myself somewhat of climate expert, having adventured among most of the climates of five out of the six zones.
Without the book and without you-know-who, we'd never have adventured in the first place!
They flew, they chased, battled, embraced, disjoined, adventured apart, brought back the count of their deeds, compared them,--and name the one crushed!
Yet they adventured to go back, but it was so dark, and the flood was so high, that in their going back they had like to have been drowned nine or ten times.
Then followed silence, dead as ever, till the song of a blackbird, not properly awake, adventured into the hush.
She had once adventured to the law courts by herself, to see him in his wig and gown.
To find a something, which will soon expose The villanies and wiles of her determined foes: And, having thus adventured, thus endured, Fame, wealth, and lover, are for life secured.
So as soon as they were come to Eye-gate, the poor and tottering town of Mansoul adventured to give a shout.
Diabolus had adventured to come nearer again, but the sling-stones were to him and his like hornets.
Bobbies kept an eye on the Red Moon, a respectful one: interference with the time-hallowed customs and prerogatives of its clientele was something to be adventured with extreme discretion.
In all the babble of words that fell from the lips of the men with whom she adventured she was trying to find what would be for her the true word, Elizabeth had married Tom Willard, a clerk in her father's hotel, because he was at hand and wanted to marry at the time when the determination to marry came to her.
English philosophy, as I have shown, suffers by the fact that Herbert Spencer was too busy to permit himself any such romantic altruism--just as American literature gains enormously by the fact that Walt Whitman adventured, leaving seven sons behind him, three of whom are now well-known American poets and in the forefront of the New Poetry movement.
I should tell at length how much we were helped by the good fortune of picking up a Utopian coin of gold, how at last we adventured into the Utopian inn and found it all marvellously easy.