challenge

challenge has 24 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.
• n.. A claim or demand.
• n.. The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
• n.. 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.
• n.. An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.
• n.. To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.
• n.. To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat.
• n.. To claim as due; to demand as a right.
• n.. To censure; to blame.
• n.. To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?"
• n.. To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.