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

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.
3. noun. A claim or demand.
4. noun. The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.
7. noun. To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.
8. noun. To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat.
9. noun. To claim as due; to demand as a right.
10. noun. To censure; to blame.
11. noun. To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?"
12. noun. To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.
13. noun. To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court.
14. noun. To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter.
15. intransitive verb. To assert a right; to claim a place.
16. noun. a demand by a sentry for a password or identification
17. noun. questioning a statement and demanding an explanation

    "his challenge of the assumption that Japan is still our enemy"

18. noun. a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror
19. noun. a call to engage in a contest or fight
20. noun. a demanding or stimulating situation

    "they reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russian power"

21. verb. raise a formal objection in a court of law
22. verb. ask for identification

    "The illegal immigrant was challenged by the border guard"

23. verb. issue a challenge to

    "Fischer challenged Spassky to a match"

24. verb. take exception to

    "She challenged his claims"

    Synonyms: dispute, gainsay

Synonyms

dispute, gainsay

Common word forms

challenged, challenger, challenges, challenging, challengeful, challengeable

Words from these letters

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