Usually means: Challenge to perform a task.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. DARE, Dare, dare: Merriam-Webster
  2. dare: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. DARE, dare: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dare: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dare: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dare, dare: Wordnik
  7. dare: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. DARE, Dare, dare: Wiktionary
  9. dare: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dare: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dare: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. DARE: Dictionary.com
  13. dare: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dare: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. D.A.R.E, DARE (cable system), DARE (song), DARE, Dare (La La La), Dare (album), Dare (band), Dare (film), Dare (graffiti artist), Dare (name), Dare (song), Dare, The Dare: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dare: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dare: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dare: Rhymezone
  19. dare: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dare: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Dare: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. DARE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. dare: FreeDictionary.org
  24. dare: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Dare: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. dare: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. dare: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dare: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DARE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. DARE: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DARE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. dare: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the dare: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To have enough courage (to do something).
verb:  (transitive) To defy or challenge (someone to do something).
verb:  (transitive) To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to.
verb:  (transitive) To terrify; to daunt.
verb:  (archaic, transitive) To drive larks to the ground by scaring them (for instance, with mirrors or hawks) so they can be caught in nets.
noun:  A challenge to prove courage.
noun:  The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.
noun:  Defiance; challenge.
noun:  (games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to perform a dare set by the other players.
verb:  (obsolete) To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified.
verb:  (obsolete) To lie or crouch down in fear.
noun:  A small fish, the dace
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (US) Acronym of Drug Abuse Resistance Education.
noun:  (lexicography) Acronym of Dictionary of American Regional English.

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