{
    "term": "dare",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "dare",
            "heSheIt": "dares"
        },
        "pastSimple": "dared",
        "pastParticiple": "dared",
        "ingForm": "daring"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to be brave enough to do something",
            "sensetop": "dare (to) do something",
            "labels": "(literary)British English",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She said it as loudly as she dared."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He didn’t dare (to) say what he thought.",
                    "contextForm": "dare (to) do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They daren't ask for any more money."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She dared not breathe a word of it to anybody."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Dare to be different!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was something, **dare I say it**, a little unusual about him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I hardly dared breathe."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I wouldn't dare go by myself."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He didn't dare (to) say what he thought."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Personal qualities"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["barely", "hardly", "scarcely"],
                "verb + dare": ["wouldn’t"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to challenge somebody to do something dangerous, difficult or embarrassing so that they can show that they are not afraid",
            "sensetop": "dare somebodydare somebody to do something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Go on! Take it! I dare you.",
                    "contextForm": "dare somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some of the older boys had dared him to do it.",
                    "contextForm": "dare somebody to do something"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Danger"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to tell somebody strongly not to do something",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘I'll tell her about it.’ ‘Don't you dare!’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't you dare say anything to anybody."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to show that you are angry about something that somebody has done",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "How dare you talk to me like that?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "How dare she imply that I was lying?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used when you are saying that something is likely",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I dare say you know about it already."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Doubt, guessing and certainty"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/deə(r)/",
                "audio": "da/dare/dare__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/deəz/",
                "audio": "da/dare/dares__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/deəd/",
                "audio": "da/dare/dared__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdeərɪŋ/",
                "audio": "da/dare/daring__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/der/",
                "audio": "da/dare/dare__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/derz/",
                "audio": "da/dare/dares__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/derd/",
                "audio": "da/dare/dared__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈderɪŋ/",
                "audio": "da/dare/daring__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English durran, of Germanic origin; related to Gothic gadaursan, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek tharsein and Sanskrit dhṛṣ- ‘be bold’."
}