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challengeable
chal·lenge C0229800 (chăl′ənj)n.1. a. A call to engage in a contest, fight, or competition: a challenge to a duel.b. An act or statement of defiance; a call to confrontation: a challenge to the government's authority.2. A demand for explanation or justification; a calling into question: a challenge to a theory.3. A sentry's call to an unknown party for proper identification.4. A test of one's abilities or resources in a demanding but stimulating undertaking: a career that offers a challenge.5. A claim that a vote is invalid or that a voter is unqualified.6. Law a. A formal objection to the inclusion of a prospective juror in a jury.b. A legal case testing the validity of an action taken, particularly by the government.7. Immunology The induction or evaluation of an immune response in an organism by administration of a specific antigen to which it has been sensitized.v. chal·lenged, chal·leng·ing, chal·leng·es v.tr.1. a. To call to engage in a contest, fight, or competition: challenged me to a game of chess.b. To invite with defiance; dare: challenged him to contradict her.c. To confront or struggle with (something) as a test of one's abilities: rafters challenging the rapids.2. To take exception to; call into question; dispute: a book that challenges established beliefs.3. To order to halt and be identified, as by a sentry.4. Law a. To take formal objection to (a prospective juror).b. To bring a legal case testing the validity of an action, particularly by the government.5. To question the qualifications of (a voter) or the validity of (a vote).6. To have due claim to; call for: events that challenge our attention.7. To summon to action, effort, or use; stimulate: a problem that challenges the imagination.8. Immunology To induce or evaluate an immune response in (an organism) by administering a specific antigen to which it has been sensitized.v.intr.1. To make or give voice to a challenge.2. To begin barking upon picking up the scent. Used of hunting dogs.
[Middle English chalenge, from Old French, from Latin calumnia, trickery, false accusation; see calumny. V., Middle English chalengen, from Old French chalangier, from Latin calumniārī, from calumnia.]
chal′lenge·a·ble adj.Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | challengeable - capable of being challengedcontestable - capable of being contested |
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