verb
- to have the courage to do something
- to challenge someone to do something
- used in negative statements to express that one should not do something
Usage: often with ‘not’
noun
- a challenge to do something dangerous or difficult
Examples
- I don’t dare tell my parents about the broken window.
- She dared to speak up against the unfair policy.
- He dared me to jump off the high diving board.
- Don’t you dare touch my computer!
- The children accepted the dare to spend a night in the haunted house.
- It was just a dare, but it ended badly.
- How dare you speak to me like that!