Dare
Dare verb - To invite (someone) to take part in a contest or to perform a feat.
Try and dare are semantically related. in take a risk topic. In some cases you can use "Try" instead a verb "Dare".
Try
Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
How words are described
| old | old dare | old try |
| good | good dare | good try |
| total | total dare | total try |
| single | single dare | single try |
| Other adjectives: new, final, younger. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- And Shiro is just a normal baker, certainly not a skilled bodyguard with beyond military training so he definitely wouldn't dare to try to attack you for any reasons Even if you try to strangle his daughter.
Source: Fan Fic / Infinity -
Go ahead, try and make an attack run on a destroyer in a slow-moving torpedo bomber at low altitude without any fighter cover to distract it... we dare you.
Source: Video Game / War Thunder - How dare you try and weasel your way out of your responsibility for letting this happen?
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