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verb

Challenge v. t. (past & past part. challenged; pres. part. challenging)

1.

To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy. "I challenge any man to make any pretense to power by right of fatherhood."

2.

To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat. "By this I challenge him to single fight."

3.

To claim as due; to demand as a right. "Challenge better terms."

4.

To censure; to blame. (Obs.) "He complained of the emperors... and challenged them for that he had no greater revenues... from them."

5.

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

6.

To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.

7.

(Law) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court.

8.

To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter. (U. S.)

To challenge to the array, To challenge to the favor, To challenge to the polls. See under Challenge, n.

Challenge v. i. To assert a right; to claim a place. "Where nature doth with merit challenge."

adjective

challenging adj.

1.

Requiring full use of one's abilities or resources; as, challenging task.

Synonyms: ambitious, demanding.

2.

Disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority.

Synonyms: insubordinate, resistant, resistive.

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Etymology of 'Challenging'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Challenging" Quotes from Famous Books

... could be given to an ultimatum which directly challenged Belgium's rights. A modern nation might have been intimidated, but an old nation like Belgium, which had struggled towards independence through long and weary periods of warfare and foreign domination, was bound to resist. In challenging King Albert and his ministers, the German Government challenged at the same time all the leaders of the Belgian people, from De Coninck to Vonck and De Merode, and the reply of the Belgian Government ...

— Belgium - From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day • Emile Cammaerts

... their guns that wins out," declared the bearded man, looking around as if challenging contradiction, and, when none came, frowning on in silence. Then suddenly his eyes fell on the figure of little Mary, who sat behind the table with her thin face resting in her hands and her eyes burning with thoughts of that great wonder-world ...

— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck

... he fired his sixth unavailing shot at seven hundred yards. Langdon was reloading. For fifteen seconds Thor offered himself openly, roaring his defiance, challenging the enemy he could no longer see; and then at Langdon's seventh shot, a whiplash of fire raked his back, and in strange dread of this lightning which he could not fight, Thor continued up over the break. He heard other rifle shots, which were like a new kind ...

— The Grizzly King • James Oliver Curwood

... and large swaths of the countryside are under guerrilla influence, the movement lacks the military strength or popular support necessary to overthrow the government. An anti-insurgent army of paramilitaries has grown to be several thousand strong in recent years, challenging the insurgents for control of territory and illicit industries such as the drug trade and the government's ability to exert its dominion over rural areas. While Bogota continues to try to negotiate a settlement, neighboring countries ...

— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

... well-known native politician) asked the chairman to place a motion before the meeting, as he was ready to move an amendment. The temper of the meeting having already shown itself unfavourably to the chairman's suggestion, the latter, instead of challenging a positive defeat, suggested an adjournment. This was agreed to for the simple reason that nineteen persons were too few to express the wishes of the 100,000 Natives of King Williamstown. But, the next morning, the message "from Reuter's agent at King Williamstown" ...

— Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since • Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje

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