DARED

Definition: DARED

DARED

1. Of Dare

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DARED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Crosswords: DARED

That may be the first time in my life a man has dared insult me. (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman)

I'd give him the opportunities he never dared dream about (Young Bess; writing credit: Margaret Irwin; Jan Lustig)

You dared come here to confront me (The Secret of Monkey Island; writing credit: Orson Scott Card; Ron Gilbert)

Do you mean that in order to save his contemptible life, he dared to impress upon our credulous simplicity (The Pirates of Penzance; writing credit: William S. Gilbert; Wilford Leach)

And no one dared (The Sound Of Silence; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel)

Ten Who Dared (1960)

The Man Who Dared (1946)

When Ambrose Dared Walrus (1915)

The Man Who Dared (1913)

Cameramen Who Dared (1988)

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Books

• A Thousand Shall Fall: The Electrifying Story of a Soldier and His Family Who Dared to Practice Their Faith in Hitler's Germany (reference)

• I Dared to Call Him Father (reference)

• I'll Take Tomorrow: The Story of a Courageous Woman Who Dared to Subject Herself to a Medical Experiment-The First Successful Heart-Lung Transplant (reference)

• T.V.: The Great Escape!: Life-Changing Stories from Those Who Dared to Take Control (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Best of Cameramen Who Dared (reference)

• National Geographic's Cameramen Who Dared (reference)

• Royal Family Collection - Fergie - The Duchess Who Dared (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Graphic statues, no. 17 "the woman who dared" / / Th. W. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ida B. Wells--I'd rather go down in history as one lone Negro who dared to tell the government that it had done a dastardly thing ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She would not have been puzzled, had she dared fix on them

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread

Nobody would have dared to speak of, or even to remember them

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Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "DARED": he dared not go ♦ he dared to insult me. Additional references.

Ending with "DARED": often-dared.

Chinese 

敢. (various references)

German

dürfen (be able, be able to, be allowed, be allowed to, be permitted, can, durst, have the right to, may, to be allowed, to be permitted), zutrauen (believe smb. capable of, confide, confidence, durst, entrust, have confidence in, trust), wagen (baby carriage, bus, car, caravan, carriage, cars, cart, coach, dare, durst, hazard, machine, pram, railway carriage, risk, to risk, to take a chance, trolley, trollies, trolly, Van, vehicle, vehicular, venture, waggon, wagon, wain), traute sich, sich trauen (dare, durst), sich erdreisten (durst, have the audacity, have the nerve), sich (aggregate, durst, each other, federalize, herself, him, himself, itself, one another, oneself, self, themselves, to herself, to himself, to itself, to oneself, to realize, to stretch, to themselves, to yourself, to yourselves, yourself, yourselves), gewagt (bold, daring, hazardous, off color, racy, reckless, risked, risky, risque, ventured, venturesome, wildcat), es wagen (durst, take a chance, to dare). (various references)

Korean 

대담하게 하는. (various references)

Pig Latin

aredday.(various references)

Romanian

el n-a îndrãznit sã meargã (he dared not go), îndrãznit sã mã insulte (he dared to insult me). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "DARED": daredevil, daredevilries, daredevilry, daredevils, daredeviltries, daredeviltry. (additional references)

Words ending with "DARED": calendared, outdared, overdared. (additional references)

Misspellings

"DARED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adred, daced, daed, daer, daged, Dahruj, daied, daped, darado, Darah, Dard, darda, dardo, darea, darem, darey, Darez, D'arfet, darib, darid, darked, darode, darve, D'arzew, Daurade, daved, dayre, Derbend, derde, Dereh, Dharjee, dird, direx, draad, drade, draee, draew, drawed, dred, dreed, drend, drid, duird, dured, dwarsed, idared, tared. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: adder, dread, readd.

-1 letter: dare, dead, dear, read, redd.

-2 letters: add, are, dad, ear, era, rad, red.

-3 letters: ad, ae, ar, de, ed, er, re.

+1 letter: adders, adored, badder, barded, carded, dander, darked, darned, darted, deader, deodar, draped, drayed, dreads, farded, gadder, graded, ladder, larded, madder, padder, radded, raddle, raided, readds, sadder, traded, wadder, warded, yarded.

+2 letters: abraded, address, addrest, adducer, adhered, adjured, admired, adorned, arcaded, awarded, bearded, bedward, bladder, boarded, bradded, braided, branded, breaded, cheddar, cradled, danders, dandier, dandler, darkled, dartled, daunder, dawdler, deaired, defraud, degrade, deodara, deodars, derated, diehard, drabbed, drafted, dragged, drained, dramedy, drammed, dratted, drawled, dreaded, dreamed, dryades, dwarfed, faddier, gadders, gladder, guarded, hoarded, ladders, madders, padders, paddler, paraded, raddled, raddles, radioed, readded, readied, redated, redhead, roadbed, saddler, swarded, treaded, wadders, waddler.