DAUNT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does daunt mean? 

• DAUNT (verb)
  The verb DAUNT has 1 sense:

1. cause to lose courage

  Familiarity information: DAUNT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAUNT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they daunt    ... he / she / it daunts   
Past simple: daunted   
Past participle: daunted   
-ing form: daunting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to lose courage

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

dash; daunt; frighten away; frighten off; pall; scare; scare away; scare off

Context example:

dashed by the refusal

Hypernyms (to "daunt" is one way to...):

intimidate (to compel or deter by or as if by threats)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The performance is likely to daunt Sue

 Context examples 

As is usual with your sign, you soldiered on no matter how daunting the tasks, taking one day at a time and putting one foot in front of the other.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

As a result, cancer therapy remains a daunting diagnosis for patients and treatment options seem limited for a disease which causes one in six deaths globally.

(‘Energetic Cancer Cells’ May Be Origin of Cancer Spread, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Nothing daunted, he approached his man once more, but this time with more caution than before.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Somewhat daunted by this reception, Jo hesitated on the threshold, murmuring in much embarrassment...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

After this the enchanted axe cut off my arms, one after the other; but, nothing daunted, I had them replaced with tin ones.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

All night he ran, blundering in the darkness into mishaps and obstacles that delayed but did not daunt.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

With St. Paul, I acknowledge myself the chiefest of sinners; but I do not suffer this sense of my personal vileness to daunt me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was because nothing daunted him that he had been chosen for government courier.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

His majesty, who is a most magnanimous prince, was less daunted than I could expect: he ordered me to return it into the scabbard, and cast it on the ground as gently as I could, about six feet from the end of my chain.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Don't be troubled, Meg, poverty seldom daunts a sincere lover.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)