Meanings
verbdare say (third-person singular simple present dares say or dare say, present participle daring to say, simple past and past participle dared say or (archaic) durst say)
present singular third person dares say · participle present daring to say · participle past dared say · past dared say · archaic participle past durst say · archaic past durst say
- alternativeintransitiveuncommonoriginallyAlternative form of daresay.
The kitchen window was open. I asked Sydney if he had left it so. ‘I don’t know, — I dare say we did; I don’t fancy that either of us stood on the order of his coming.’
1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle
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