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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dare \Dare\ (d[^a]r), v. i. [imp. Durst (d[^u]rst) or Dared (d[^a]rd); p. p. Dared; p. pr. & vb. n. Daring.] [OE. I dar, dear, I dare, imp. dorste, durste, AS. ic dear I dare, imp. dorste. inf. durran; akin to OS. gidar, gidorsta, gidurran, OHG. tar, torsta, turran, Goth. gadar, gada['u]rsta, Gr. tharsei^n, tharrei^n, to be bold, tharsy`s bold, Skr. Dhrsh to be bold. [root]70.] To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.
I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more
is none.
--Shak.
Why then did not the ministers use their new law?
Bacause they durst not, because they could not.
--Macaulay.
Who dared to sully her sweet love with suspicion.
--Thackeray.
The tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood,
because a partisan was more ready to dare without
asking why.
--Jowett
(Thu?yd.).
Note: The present tense, I dare, is really an old past tense,
so that the third person is he dare, but the form he
dares is now often used, and will probably displace the
obsolescent he dare, through grammatically as incorrect
as he shalls or he cans.
--Skeat.
The pore dar plede (the poor man dare plead).
--P. Plowman.
You know one dare not discover you.
--Dryden.
The fellow dares not deceive me.
--Shak.
Here boldly spread thy hands, no venom'd weed
Dares blister them, no slimy snail dare creep.
--Beau. & Fl.
Note: Formerly durst was also used as the present. Sometimes the old form dare is found for durst or dared.
Dare \Dare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dared; p. pr. & vb. n. Daring.]
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To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.
What high concentration of steady feeling makes men dare every thing and do anything?
--Bagehot.To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes.
--The Century. -
To challenge; to provoke; to defy.
Time, I dare thee to discover Such a youth and such a lover.
--Dryden.
Daring \Dar"ing\, a. Bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits. -- Dar"ing*ly, adv. -- Dar"ing*ness, n.
Daring \Dar"ing\, n. Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., verbal noun from dare (v.).
Wiktionary
adventurous, willing to take on or look for risks. n. boldness v
(present participle of dare English)
WordNet
adj. disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"; "a venturesome investor"; "a venturous spirit" [syn: audacious, venturesome, venturous]
radically new or original; "an avant-garde theater piece" [syn: avant-garde]
Wikipedia
Daring can mean:
Ships:
- Daring class destroyer (disambiguation), three classes of destroyer
- HMS Daring, seven vessels of the British Royal Navy
- USS Daring (AM-87), a World War II minesweeper
- SS Wallsend (1943), a cargo ship later renamed Daring
- Daring (steamboat 1909)
- Daring (keelboat), a class of keelboat raced in Cowes
Other uses:
- early name and now nickname of Daring Club Motema Pembe football club
- Chris Daring, American musician
- Daring, Nancowry, a village in Andaman & Nicobar Islands of India
The steamboat Daring operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet and was later converted into a tug.
The Daring is a one-design keelboat which is based in Cowes on the Isle of Wight and races throughout the season around the Solent. Its construction is GRP, with some older yachts possessing original wooden decks.
The first Darings were designed by Arthur Robb, based on his 5.5 Metre yacht Vision which was built for and won silver in the 1956 Olympics. 35 yachts of the class were built in the years up to 1992. In 2008 a new hull mould was commissioned to match the original lines but with a redesigned ergonomic deck and cockpit. One new yacht was built and several more obtained new hulls while keeping the original name, number, rigging and keel.
To date all Darings are based in Cowes apart from three (8, Day Dreamer; 18, Deva; 20, Afroessa) sold to owners in Beirut, Cumbria and Majorca respectively. Most Darings' names begin with "D".
The season runs for approximately 80 races from April through to October, with highlights including Cowes Classics Week and Cowes Week in June and August. The Daring Class Association manages the class rules carefully to ensure affordability, uniformity and close racing. The class is not often raced against other designs of yachts, as the class racing is usually competitive and well attended, however occasionally pursuit races are competed with other classes of yacht in the Solent.
The Class Association has a number of strong affiliations, including with the International One Design fleet. This provides for the winner of Cowes Week each year to compete at Bermuda International Invitational Race Week in IODs. Further the class has links with foreign yacht clubs which will annually compete a team racing challenge in home or foreign waters. Competitors in the past have included the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, the Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club in Perth, Western Australia and the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club on Long Island, USA.
Usage examples of "daring".
She often returned home pale and silent, having reached the uttermost depths of human abomination, and never daring to say all.
Ever since the rash but successful enterprise of the Franks under the reign of Probus, their daring countrymen had constructed squadrons of light brigantines, in which they incessantly ravaged the provinces adjacent to the ocean.
If there was one thing that terrified me above all others, it was not daring the wrath of the Master of the Straits nor the dangers of distant Alba and the blue-tattooed Cruithne.
Close at hand was the snowy mass of the Great Altels cooling its topknot in the sky and daring us to an ascent.
Her daring lover had returned to her, banishing the nervous amnesiac of a few moments ago, and she wanted to sing from both relief and fresh desire.
I caressed her in a somewhat lively manner, and drew back my hand, again apologizing for my daring, and when she let me see her face I thought I saw delight rather than anger in her eyes and on her cheeks, and I felt hopeful with regard to her.
In spite of myself, I listened to the quarrel, not daring to interfere, and not thinking of going away, when Michael Arout appeared at the shop-door.
Already the wounds were repairing themselves, but the arquebusiers were reloading with panicked haste, not daring to go near the dying creature.
The fabric of superstition which they had erected, and which might long have defied the feeble efforts of reason, was at length assaulted by a crowd of daring fanatics, who from the twelfth to the sixteenth century assumed the popular character of reformers.
And she cried for herself---for the loss of her childhood and her athleticism, for the loss of a certain innocence and daring after that night twelve years before.
The harbour defences, manned largely by Maltese, destroyed almost the whole attacking force in spite of its daring.
Moozh was taking a thousand fierce soldiers with him on a forced march through the mountains, to take the city of Basilica and destroy the party of Gaballufix, a group of men so daring and treacherous that they had dared to send an assassin against the general of the Gorayni.
I sighed and burned for her in silence, not daring to declare my love, for while the wound of the death of Charlotte was still bleeding I also began to find that women were beginning to give me the cold shoulder.
When Queen Cyrilla was taken out to be beheaded, he made a daring raid, and in the confusion of people come to see the execution, he snatched his sister from the axeman.
In a mood of daring, and remembering the cool flavour of the borage in his lemonade, he chose the former and was rewarded with a glance of approval from Lady Whitton.