Definition of challenge

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Challenge (n.) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with Who comes there?.

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Challenge :: Challenge (n.) An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons..
Forbid :: Forbid (v. t.) To defy; to challenge.
Challenged :: Challenged (imp. & p. p.) of Challeng.
Claim :: Claim (v./.) To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due..
Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) To summon; to challenge.
Herald :: Herald (n.) An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character..
Dare :: Dare (v. t.) To challenge; to provoke; to defy.
Qui Vive :: Qui vive () The challenge of a French sentinel, or patrol; -- used like the English challenge: Who comes there?.
Challengeable :: Challengeable (a.) That may be challenged.
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.
Impeach :: Impeach (v. t.) To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To claim as due; to demand as a right.
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To censure; to blame.
Challenger :: Challenger (n.) One who challenges.
Defy :: Defy (v. t.) To provoke to combat or strife; to call out to combat; to challenge; to dare; to brave; to set at defiance; to treat with contempt; as, to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court..
Provoke :: Provoke (v. t.) To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate..
Gage :: Gage (n.) A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) A claim or demand.
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