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dare

verb

1 nobody dared to say a word:

be brave enough, have the courage, pluck up courage, take the risk;

venture, have the nerve, have the temerity, make so bold as, be so bold as, have the effrontery, have the audacity, presume, go so far as;

risk doing, hazard doing, take the liberty of doing;

informal stick one's neck out, go out on a limb;

North American, informal take a flyer;

archaic make bold to.

2 she dared him to go:

challenge, provoke, goad, taunt, defy, summon, invite, bid;

throw down the gauntlet to.

noun

she didn't quite know why she accepted the dare:

challenge, provocation, goad, taunt;

gauntlet, invitation, ultimatum, summons.

dare Oxford Dictionary of English