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overdare

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To dare too much or rashly; to be too daring.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

Examples

  • 1912, William Butler Yeats, The Countess Cathleen, Scene III, in Poems, London: T. Fisher Unwin, p. 59, When one so great has spoken of love to one So little as I, though to deny him love, What can he but hold out beseeching hands, Then let them fall beside him, knowing how greatly They have overdared?

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History

Etymology

From over- + dare.