Usually means: Accept and respond to challenge.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. take up the gauntlet: Merriam-Webster
  2. take up the gauntlet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. take up the gauntlet: Collins English Dictionary
  4. take up the gauntlet: Wiktionary
  5. take up the gauntlet: Dictionary.com
  6. take up the gauntlet: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take up the gauntlet: Medical dictionary

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  1. take up the gauntlet: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (take up the gauntlet)

verb:  (idiomatic) To accept a challenge.

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