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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
challenged
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
challenged...to...duel
▪ The officer challenged him to a duel.
physically challenged
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although challenged, this remains the most convincing explanation.
▪ Established elements of parliamentary democracy in Britain are challenged.
▪ Her beliefs and principles were accepted by the company and never challenged but Mrs Taylor had failed to recognise this.
▪ In the fall of 1995, another researcher published a study, that challenged obesity researchers to rethink many of their conclusions.
▪ In the work in both the Preston and Oxford shows, that perceptual centring is constantly challenged.
▪ It was in this period too that a club's control over a player was first challenged in the law courts.
▪ She must therefore establish with the client whether those later accounts contain similar items to those challenged for previous years.
▪ The adversary politics thesis developed by the reformers has also been variously challenged.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
challenged

challenged \challenged\ adj.

  1. having doubts expressed about its truth.

    Syn: disputed, questioned.

  2. handicapped or disabled; -- used as a euphemism, especially in combinations; as, physically challenged; mentally challenged.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
challenged

as a euphemism for "disabled," 1985, past participle adjective from challenge (v.).

Wiktionary
challenged

  1. 1 lacking some physical or mental attribute or skill; used after adverbs to make politically correct adjectives. 2 Used following adverbs to make jocular adjectives in imitation of and mocking politically correct adjectives of this kind, as "''X''-challenged" = "lacking ''X''". v

  2. (en-past of: challenge)

Usage examples of "challenged".

He'd never been challenged before: not since he'd been a very young boy.

Which, because it is not authorized, will not wish to be challenged by any FSP cruisers in the system.

As I told you when your ship challenged me yesterday, we found the capsule drifting in space.

Tracing the legends of the natives, of a king who first defied the gods and then challenged them, they replicated Schliemann's famous discovery of ancient Troy, uncovering an entire city buried by a volcanic eruption.

Probably she hasn't challenged you simply because it hasn't occurred to her.

Only his right to succeed Klemay had just been challenged by the bolt.

Children from Larak's age to sixteen, who would be physically and mentally challenged by the opportunity of `unstructured' classes were asked to enrol.

But she had in effect challenged him, he had to respond, however briefly.

His twinkling eyes challenged her as he threw his free arm about her shoulders, nibbling at her ear.

Or," he said, giving her that sly sideways glance that challenged her, "you compose a song to chant at the next latchkay.

Yana challenged, inserting herself between the injured Sean and the self-proclaimed Shepherd.

Pete Snyder got Aarens challenged by the need for a fault that would appear to have disabled the engine.

With a twitch of his sturdy shoulders, he had thrown off his doomsday depression and instead challenged them all.

As far as the MasterHarper knew, this was the first time a Lord Holder had openly challenged the Weyr.

As Berd finally settled, Canth let out so mighty a bugle that Mnementh challenged from the ledge and Ramoth roared back from the Hatching Ground.