Overdare
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Overdare is a verb meaning (intransitive) To dare too much or rashly; to be too daring.
Meaning
(intransitive) To dare too much or rashly; to be too daring.
Example Sentences
Meete you for this, proud ouerdaring peeres, Ere my sweete Gaueston shall part from me, This Ile shall fleete vpon the Ocean, And wander to the vnfrequented Inde.
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?
Word Forms
- overdares
- overdaring
- overdared
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include outdare, overdo, overreach, overdose, overshoot, overdrive.
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