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take up the gantlet

take up the gantlet is the alternative form of take up the gauntlet.

Meaning of take up the gauntlet

Verb

take up the gauntlet (third-person singular simple present takes up the gauntlet, present participle taking up the gauntlet, simple past took up the gauntlet, past participle taken up the gauntlet)

  1. (idiomatic) To accept a challenge.
    • He doesn't read Greek, but he took up the gauntlet and did his best to understand the letter, anyway.

Forms of take up the gantlet

third-person singular presenttakes up the gantlet
present participletaking up the gantlet
pasttook up the gantlet
past participletaken up the gantlet

Questions about take up the gantlet

What is take up the gantlet the alternative form of?
Take up the gantlet is the alternative form of take up the gauntlet.

Words near take up the gantlet in the dictionary

  1. take up cudgels
  2. take up for
  3. take up residence
  4. take up the cudgel for
  5. take up the cudgels
  6. take up the gantlet
  7. take up the gauntlet
  8. take up the glove
  9. take up the hatchet
  10. take up the mantle
  11. take up the running

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Adapted from Wiktionary: take up the gantlet (page history and authors); take up the gauntlet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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