overdare

== English == === Etymology === From over- +‎ dare. === Verb === overdare (third-person singular simple present overdares, present participle overdaring, simple past and past participle overdared) (intransitive) To dare too much or rashly; to be too daring. 1912, William Butler Yeats, The Countess Cathleen, Scene III, in Poems, London: T. Fisher Unwin, p. 59,[1] 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? (Can we find and add a quotation of Rickard to this entry?) === References === “overdare”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === overdear, overread, read over