Dictionary Entry
challenge
challenge is a 9-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 24 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
- 2noun
The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.
- 3noun
A claim or demand.
- 4noun
The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
- 5noun
An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause.
- 6noun
An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.
- 7noun
To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.
- 8noun
To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat.
- 9noun
To claim as due; to demand as a right.
- 10noun
To censure; to blame.
- 11noun
To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?"
- 12noun
To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.
- 13noun
To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court.
- 14noun
To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter.
- 15intransitive verb
To assert a right; to claim a place.
- 16noun
a demand by a sentry for a password or identification
- 17noun
questioning a statement and demanding an explanation
"his challenge of the assumption that Japan is still our enemy"
- 18noun
a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror
- 19noun
a call to engage in a contest or fight
- 20noun
a demanding or stimulating situation
"they reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russian power"
- 21verb
raise a formal objection in a court of law
- 22verb
ask for identification
"The illegal immigrant was challenged by the border guard"
- 23verb
issue a challenge to
"Fischer challenged Spassky to a match"
- 24verb
take exception to
"She challenged his claims"
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