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Synonyms for dare

The synonym for dare recorded in this bank is presume, in the sense "take upon oneself". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · verb

The synonym for dare

presumeverb, in the sense "take upon oneself"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day dare is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineSocial life

take upon oneself

He would not dare to speak against his boss.

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The true synonym

presume

Same sentence, swapped: He would not presume to speak against his boss.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where dare stands in the sentence above.

defy
accept
carry

Where dare turns up in the game

dare is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play dare

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so dare reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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