dare vs defeat

dare

noun
  • Defiance; challenge. 

  • The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness. 

  • A challenge to prove courage. 

  • In the game truth or dare, the choice to perform a dare set by the other players. 

  • A small fish, the dace 

verb
  • To terrify; to daunt. 

  • To have enough courage (to do something). 

  • To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to 

  • To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them. 

  • To defy or challenge (someone to do something) 

defeat

noun
  • The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing. 

  • The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss. 

  • Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification. 

verb
  • To nullify 

  • To prevent (something) from being achieved. 

  • To reduce, to nothing, the strength of. 

  • To overcome in battle or contest. 

How often have the words dare and defeat occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )