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Meaning of dast | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
dæst

Definitions

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dare; dares.
    Northern-US, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
  2. dare (infinitive).
    Northern-US

Examples

“Nobody dast blame this man.”
“Damon Runyon, The Lily of St. Pierre So I only go to Good Time Charley's to talk with him, and to sing in quartet with him. […] But just before five o'clock it is okay, as only the hostesses are there, and of course none of them dast to join in our singing, or Good Time Charley will run them plumb out of the joint.”
“nastya You don’t say! How dast I!”

The Lowest Depths

“They don't dast.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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