0 past simple and past participle of dare --
1 to be brave enough to do something difficult or dangerous, or to be rude or silly enough to do something that you have no right to do: --
[ + to infinitive ] He was under attack for daring to criticize the mayor.
I'd never dare (to) talk to my mother the way Brandon talks to his.
[ + infinitive without to ] I wouldn't dare have a party in my flat in case the neighbours complained.
[ + (to) infinitive ] Everyone in the office complains that he smells awful, but nobody dares (to) mention it to him.
I was going to ask if his dog was better, but I didn't dare in case she had died.
The 12 key questions around which the book is structured are called 'the questions we dared not ask'.
Maybe because he was a clever speaker, dared to say what he thought.
The workers threatened to blow up the boiler of one of the mills if the police dared to enter the premises.
He probably felt more than he dared acknowledge, even to himself.
We are the heirs, the beneficiaries of a previous humanity which dared on our behalf.
More lamentable was that few people dared to speak the truth, because doing so would inevitably result in being denounced.
Ironically, most geographers and planners have themselves accepted this argument; they have never dared to realize the full implications of their own project.
No one usually dared to interrupt him and ask a question.
