Dare \Dare\ (d[^a]r), v. i. [imp. {Durst} (d[^u]rst) or {Dared} (d[^a]rd); p. p. {Dared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Daring}.] [OE. I dar, dear, I dare, imp. dorste, durste, AS. ic dear I dare, imp. dorste. inf. durran; akin to OS. gidar, gidorsta, gidurran, OHG. tar, torsta, turran, Goth. gadar, gada['u]rsta, Gr. tharsei^n, tharrei^n, to be bold, tharsy`s bold, Skr. Dhrsh to be bold. [root]70.] To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.
I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. --Shak.
Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Bacause they durst not, because they could not. --Macaulay.
Who dared to sully her sweet love with suspicion. --Thackeray.
The tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood, because a partisan was more ready to dare without asking why. --Jowett (Thu?yd.).
Note: The present tense, I dare, is really an old past tense, so that the third person is he dare, but the form he dares is now often used, and will probably displace the obsolescent he dare, through grammatically as incorrect as he shalls or he cans. --Skeat.
The pore dar plede (the poor man dare plead). --P. Plowman.
You know one dare not discover you. --Dryden.
The fellow dares not deceive me. --Shak.
Here boldly spread thy hands, no venom'd weed Dares blister them, no slimy snail dare creep. --Beau. & Fl.
Note: Formerly durst was also used as the present. Sometimes the old form dare is found for durst or dared.
Durst \Durst\, imp. of {Dare}. See {Dare}, v. i. ※ ||
"Information is the essence of the business," Durst said. "There are good ways to do it and bad ways.
Clermont sold the building through Metasequoia Associates, a partnership between Clermont and members of the Durst family, which is involved in real estate investments in New York, Clermont said.
In the last year, Durst acquired 70-year leaseholds for eight theaters.
ABC News reported Thursday on Durst's allegations and the exchange of letters.
"We've made New York City a one-industry town, pretty much," says developer Seymour B. Durst.
Susan Durst, formerly md sales & marketing, Western Europe for Pan American Airlines, has been appointed international marketing director of EUROPCAR Interrent International.