challengest

Verb

challenge (third-person singular simple present challenges, present participle challenging, simple past and past participle challenged)

1. (transitive) To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
   • We challenged the boys next door to a game of football.
2. (transitive) To dare (someone).
   • [...] For I challenge any Man to make any pretence to Power by Right of Fatherhood, either intelligible or poſſible in any one, otherwiſe, then either as Adams heir, or as Progenitor over his own deſcendants, naturally ſprung from him.1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “Who Heir?”, in Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], →OCLC, book I, paragraph 149, page 194
3. (transitive) To dispute (something); to contest.
   • to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation

   Synonyms:

   call

4. To call something into question or dispute.
   • New information challenged old hypotheses.
5. (transitive) To make a formal objection to a juror.
6. (transitive) To be difficult or challenging for.
   • Before moving onto the content of Hobson-Jobson, an explication of the publication history is necessary since this has clearly challenged many commentators.2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 487

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