dare

I wouldn't dare (to) argue with my boss.

The fellow dares not deceive me.

1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Because they durst not, because they could not.

1832, Thomas Macaulay, Parliamentary Reform:

(intransitive) To have enough courage (to do something).

I dare you to kiss that girl.

Particular note, in this period, should be made of the actions of Joseph Denman, commander of the Northern Division of the Squadron, who went on an absolutely ruthless and systematic campaign along the African coast, burning so-called "slaving factories" to the ground and openly daring anyone who objected to try and stop him.

2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 9:26 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 2024-11-29:

(transitive) To defy or challenge (someone to do something).

Will you dare death to reach your goal?

To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes.

(transitive) To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to.

For I have done those follies, those mad mischiefs, Would dare a woman.

c. 1608–1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Maid’s Tragedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i:

I have an hobby can make larks to dare

1516, John Skelton, Magnificence, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 35:

dare us, like larks

1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

How, think you, would that godly prince (if he were now living) handle our idols, set up against God's commandment directly, and being figures of nothing but folly, and for fools to gaze on, till they become as wise as the blocks themselves which they stare on, and so fall down as dared larks in that gaze, and being themselves alive, worship a dead stock or stone, gold or silver, and so become idolaters […]

1815, Church of England, Sermons: Or, Homilies, page 210:

(archaic, transitive) To drive larks to the ground by scaring them (for instance, with mirrors or hawks) so they can be caught in nets.

en-verb

dare (third-person singular simple present dare or dares or (archaic) dast, present participle daring, simple past and past participle dared or (archaic) durst)

dare (present singular third-person)
dares (present singular third-person)
dast (archaic present singular third-person)
daring (participle present)
dared (participle past)
dared (past)
durst (archaic participle past)
durst (archaic past)

From Middle English durren, from Old English durran, from Proto-West Germanic *durʀan, from Proto-Germanic *durzaną (“to dare”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰedʰórse (“to dare”), reduplicated stative of the root *dʰers- (“to be bold, to dare”), an *-s- extension of *dʰer- (“to hold, support”).
Cognates
Cognate with Low German dören, Dutch durven, German turren, Sanskrit दधर्ष (dadhárṣa), but also with Ancient Greek θρασύς (thrasús), Albanian nder, Lithuanian drįsti, Russian дерза́ть (derzátʹ).


dare

It lends a lustre […] / A large dare to our great enterprise.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.

Childish, unworthy dares / Are not enough to part our powers.

[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

Sextus Pompeius / Hath given the dare to Caesar.

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

When asked truth or dare, she picked dare.

(games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to perform a dare set by the other players.


dare

(obsolete) To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified.

(obsolete) To lie or crouch down in fear.

en-verb

dare (third-person singular simple present dares, present participle daring, simple past and past participle dared)

dares (present singular third-person)
daring (participle present)
dared (participle past)
dared (past)

From Middle English daren, from Old English darian.


dare

The Dare is not unlike a Chub, but proportionably less; his Body is more white and flatter, and his Tail more forked.

1766, Richard Brookes, The art of angling, rock and sea-fishing:

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909


dare

to give (to transfer the possession/holding of something to someone else)

to yield, to bear, to produce, to return

il bue che dà del cornuto all'asino

the pot calling the kettle black (literally, “the ox calling the donkey horned”)

dare del tu

(ditransitive) to name, to call, to refer to [with del] [with al]

(transitive, vulgar, slang) chiefly in the form darla: acquiesce to a sexual intercourse

it-verb

dàre (first-person singular present (with syntactic gemination after the verb) dò, first-person singular past historic dièdi or diédi or détti or (traditional) dètti, past participle dàto, first-person singular future darò, first-person singular subjunctive dìa, first-person singular imperfect subjunctive déssi, second-person singular imperative dài or dà', auxiliary avére)

dàre (canonical)
dò (first-person present singular)
dièdi (first-person historic past singular)
diédi (first-person historic past singular)
détti (first-person historic past singular)
dètti (first-person historic past singular traditional)
dàto (participle past)
darò (first-person future singular)
dìa (first-person singular subjunctive)
déssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
dài (imperative second-person singular)
dà' (imperative second-person singular)
avére (auxiliary)
dàre (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
dàndo (gerund)
dànte (participle present)
dàto (participle past)
dò (first-person indicative present singular)
dài (indicative present second-person singular)
dà (indicative present singular third-person)
diàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
dàte (indicative plural present second-person)
dànno (indicative plural present third-person)
dàvo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
dàvi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
dàva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
davàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
davàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
dàvano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
dièdi (first-person historic indicative past singular)
diédi (first-person historic indicative past singular)
détti (first-person historic indicative past singular)
dètti (Traditional first-person historic indicative past singular)
désti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
diède (historic indicative past singular third-person)
diéde (historic indicative past singular third-person)
détte (historic indicative past singular third-person)
dètte (Traditional historic indicative past singular third-person)
démmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
déste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
dièdero (historic indicative past plural third-person)
diédero (historic indicative past plural third-person)
déttero (historic indicative past plural third-person)
dèttero (Traditional historic indicative past plural third-person)
darò (first-person future indicative singular)
darài (future indicative second-person singular)
darà (future indicative singular third-person)
darémo (first-person future indicative plural)
daréte (future indicative plural second-person)
darànno (future indicative plural third-person)
darèi (conditional first-person singular)
darésti (conditional second-person singular)
darèbbe (conditional singular third-person)
darébbe (conditional singular third-person)
darémmo (conditional first-person plural)
daréste (conditional plural second-person)
darèbbero (conditional plural third-person)
darébbero (conditional plural third-person)
dìa (first-person present singular subjunctive)
dìa (present second-person singular subjunctive)
dìa (present singular subjunctive third-person)
diàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
diàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
dìano (plural present subjunctive third-person)
déssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
déssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
désse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
déssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
déste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
déssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
dài (imperative second-person singular)
dà' (imperative second-person singular)
dìa (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
diàmo (first-person imperative plural)
dàte (imperative plural second-person)
dìano (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
dàre (imperative negative second-person singular)
dìa (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
diàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
dàte (imperative negative plural second-person)
dìano (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
dàre (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
dàndo (gerund)
dànte (participle present)
dàto (participle past)
dò (first-person indicative present singular)
dài (indicative present second-person singular)
dà (indicative present singular third-person)
diàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
dàte (indicative plural present second-person)
dànno (indicative plural present third-person)
dàvo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
dàvi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
dàva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
davàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
davàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
dàvano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
dièdi (first-person historic indicative past singular)
diédi (first-person historic indicative past singular)
détti (first-person historic indicative past singular)
dètti (Traditional first-person historic indicative past singular)
désti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
diède (historic indicative past singular third-person)
diéde (historic indicative past singular third-person)
détte (historic indicative past singular third-person)
dètte (Traditional historic indicative past singular third-person)
diè (historic indicative past poetic singular third-person)
démmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
déste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
dièdero (historic indicative past plural third-person)
diédero (historic indicative past plural third-person)
déttero (historic indicative past plural third-person)
dèttero (Traditional historic indicative past plural third-person)
dièro (historic indicative past plural poetic third-person)
darò (first-person future indicative singular)
darài (future indicative second-person singular)
darà (future indicative singular third-person)
darémo (first-person future indicative plural)
daréte (future indicative plural second-person)
darànno (future indicative plural third-person)
darèi (conditional first-person singular)
darésti (conditional second-person singular)
darèbbe (conditional singular third-person)
darébbe (conditional singular third-person)
darémmo (conditional first-person plural)
daréste (conditional plural second-person)
darèbbero (conditional plural third-person)
darébbero (conditional plural third-person)
dìa (first-person present singular subjunctive)
dìa (present second-person singular subjunctive)
dìa (present singular subjunctive third-person)
diàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
diàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
dìano (plural present subjunctive third-person)
déssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
déssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
désse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
déssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
déste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
déssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
dài (imperative second-person singular)
dà' (imperative second-person singular)
dà (imperative second-person singular)
dìa (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
diàmo (first-person imperative plural)
dàte (imperative plural second-person)
dìano (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
dàre (imperative negative second-person singular)
dìa (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
diàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
dàte (imperative negative plural second-person)
dìano (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)

it-conj

a/-,dièdi:diédi:détti.
 phisstem:dé.
 phisrow:+,+,+:diè􂀿poetic􂁀,+,+,+:dièro􂀿poetic􂁀.
 presrow:dò*,dài,dà*!,diàmo,dàte,dànno.
 fut:darò.
 sub:dìa.
 impsub:déssi.
 imp:dài:dà':dà*!􂀿disused􂁀

From Latin dare, from Proto-Italic *didō, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti, from the root *deh₃- (“give”).


dare

inflection of dō:
present active infinitive

second-person singular present passive imperative


dare

(continental Normandy, anatomy) belly, stomach


dare

inflection of daru:
accusative singular/plural

inflection of daru:
genitive/dative singular


dare

dări (plural)
dare (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
darea (accusative definite nominative singular)
dări (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
dările (accusative definite nominative plural)
dări (indefinite singular)
dării (definite singular)
dărilor (definite plural)
dare (singular vocative)
dareo (singular vocative)
dărilor (vocative)


dare

tadare (first-person singular)
madare (first-person inclusive plural)
adare (exclusive first-person plural)
nadare (second-person singular)
fadare (plural second-person)
idare (inanimate singular third-person)
dadare (inanimate plural third-person)
idare (animate singular third-person)
dadare (animate plural third-person)
nadare (imperative singular)
dare (imperative singular)
fadare (imperative plural)
dare (imperative plural)