Answer to "Take up the gauntlet" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word DARE which also is the latest solution we found used in USA Today in 2010.

Take up the gauntlet crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer Likelyness Letters
DARE100 %4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Take up the gauntlet

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.
  • take up the gantlet
  • take up the glove
  • throw down the gauntlet
  • run the gauntlet
  • take on
  • take up the cudgel for
  • take up the hatchet
  • step up to the plate
  • take one's courage in both hands
  • take up the cudgels
  • rise to the challenge
  • take it upon oneself

Crossword Answer definitions

DARE noun
  1. A challenge to prove courage.
  2. The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.
  3. Defiance; challenge.
DARE verb
  1. To have enough courage (to do something).
  2. To defy or challenge (someone to do something)
  3. To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to
  4. To terrify; to daunt.
  5. To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them.
DARE verb
  1. To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified.
  2. To lie or crouch down in fear.
DARE noun
  1. A small fish, the dace.

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