'Daunt' definitions:
Definition of 'daunt'
(from WordNet)
verb
Cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" [syn: daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare]
Definition of 'Daunt'
From: GCIDE
- Daunt \Daunt\ (d[add]nt; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Daunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Daunting.] [OF. danter, F. dompter to tame, subdue, fr. L. domitare, v. intens. of domare to tame. See Tame.]
- 1. To overcome; to conquer. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten. [1913 Webster]
- Some presences daunt and discourage us. --Glanvill.
- Syn: To dismay; appall. See Dismay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'daunt'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- admonish,
- alarm,
- appall,
- awe,
- baffle,
- beat down,
- break,
- browbeat,
- bulldoze,
- bully,
- castrate,
- caution,
- clamp down on,
- coerce,
- compel,
- cow,
- cry out against,
- despotize,
- deter,
- discomfit,
- disconcert,
- discourage,
- dishearten,
- dispirit,
- dissuade,
- domineer,
- domineer over,
- enslave,
- expostulate,
- faze,
- foil,
- frighten,
- frighten off,
- frustrate,
- grind,
- grind down,
- henpeck,
- horrify,
- intimidate,
- keep down,
- keep under,
- kid out of,
- lord it over,
- oppress,
- overawe,
- overbear,
- overmaster,
- override,
- press heavy on,
- put off,
- remonstrate,
- repress,
- ride over,
- ride roughshod over,
- scare,
- shake,
- stop,
- subjugate,
- suppress,
- talk out of,
- terrify,
- terrorize,
- threaten,
- thwart,
- trample down,
- trample upon,
- tread down,
- tread upon,
- tyrannize,
- tyrannize over,
- unman,
- unnerve,
- unpersuade,
- upset,
- walk all over,
- walk over,
- warn,
- weigh heavy on