dare(s) not; do not or does not dare
verb
Daren’t is a contraction of dare not and means lacking courage to do something.
Daren’t is an example of how a character in a Shakespeare play would say they are afraid to do something.
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Origin
dare + -n't
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Sentence Examples
- The bigwigs here think so too, but they daren't say so.
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