Daunt

Definition: Daunt

Daunt

Verb

1. Cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "daunt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Daunt \Daunt\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Daunted; present participle verb or noun Daunting.]. (references)

Synonyms: Daunt

Fear

Put in fear, put in bodily fear; terrorize, intimidate, cow, daunt, overawe, abash, deter, discourage; browbeat, bully; threaten.

Crosswords: Daunt

And you dream that I would daunt you (9 To 5; performing artist: Dolly Parton)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

zbut (allay, amortise, amortize, appease, assuage, attenuate, break, calm, chasten, commute, disarm, ease, extenuate, malaxate, manage, melt, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palatalize, palliate, propitiate, qualify, reclaim, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, tame, temper, tenderize, tone down), tmerroj (appal, appall, horrify, terrify, terrorize). (various references)

Arabic 

‏أرهب (alarm, browbeat, buffalo, bulldoze, bully, dread, horrify, overawe, shoot up, terrify, terrorize), ‏أرعب (alarm, appal, appall, dismay, fright, frighten, horrify, intimidate, panic, stagger, terrorize), ‏ثبط الهمة (dispirit), ‏روع (appal, appall, awe, cow, put the wind up, scare, spook, stare, terrify, terrorize). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сплашвам (browbeat, bulldoze, cow, intimidate, psyche), всявам страх у, обезсърчавам (damp, dampen, discountenance, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, pour cold water on). (various references)

Chinese 

威�" (Daunted, Daunting). (various references)

Czech

zastrašit (browbeat, cow, discourage, intimidate, overawe). (various references)

Farsi 

ترساندن (Abhor, Affray, Appall, Awe, Bash, Buffalo, Cow, Deter, Feeze, Fray, Fright, Horrify, Huff, Intimidate, Scare, Shore, Spook, Threat, Tremble), رام کردن (Bridle, Gentle, Master, Subdue), بی جرات کردن (Dismay). (various references)

French

décourager (damp, dampen), intimider. (various references)

German

einschüchtern (alarm, browbeat, frighten, hector, intimidate, overawe, soften up, terrorize, to browbeat, to daunt, to frighten, to intimidate, to overawe). (various references)

Greek 

πτοώ (abash, cow, overawe, startle), αποθαρρύνω (bar, demoralize, discountenance, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, put off), τρομάζω (alarm, appal, cow, dismay, frighten, funk, horrify, intimidate, petrify, scare, startle, terrify). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"פחי�" (browbeat, bully, cow, dismay, frighten, put the wind up, scare, terrify), ל�"טיל מורא. (various references)

Hungarian

megijeszt (affright, aghast, frighten, give one the creeps, intimidate, scare, sit up, startle, terrify, to afear, to alarm, to cow, to daunt, to dismay, to fright, to frighten, to haze, to spook, to terrify), megfélemlít (awe, -beat, -beaten, browbeat, bulldoze, Hector, intimidate, outface, overawe, to awe, to browbeat, to buffalo, to bully, to concuss, to cow, to daunt, to hector, to intimidate), elcsüggeszt (deject, dishearten, dispirit, to daunt, to depress, to discourage, to dishearten, to dismay, to dispirit, to distress, to unman). (various references)

Indonesian

menyabarkan hati, menakutkan (alarm, awful, chiller, dreadful, ercy, ghastly, horrible, horrify, terrify). (various references)

Italian

scoraggiare (be discouraged, deject, demoralize, deter, discourage, dishearten, dispirit), intimidire (be intimidate, become shy, cow, hector, intimidate, make shy, overawe, threaten). (various references)

Korean 

기죽이십시�". (various references)

Manx

cur aggle er (alarm, frighten, terrorize). (various references)

Pig Latin

auntday.(various references)

Portuguese

desencorajar (depress, deter, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, unman, unnerve), intimidar (appal, appall, awe, browbeat, concuss, cow, deter, frighten, funk, hector, intimidate, menace, overawe, threaten, wither), assustar (affray, affright, appal, appall, bully, dismay, frighten, funk, intimidate, scare, startle). (various references)

Romanian

descuraja (beat down, bring low, cast down, chill, damp, dash, deject, depress, deter, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispirit, face down, flatten, mope, scare, unnerve), intimida (browbeat, bully, concuss, confuse, cow, face down, frighten, intimidate, shake), înfricoşa (awe, deter, discourage, fray, frighten, horrify, scare, terrify), îmblânzi (curb, domesticate, gentle, humanize, manage, mellow, milden, pacify, propitiate, reclaim, subdue, tame, train). (various references)

Russian 

запугивать (bluff, browbeat, bullyrag, concuss, cow, huff, intimidate, intimidating). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaplašiti (cow, get the wind up, give the chills, intimidate, scare), obeshrabriti (deject, depress, discourage, dishearten, pour cold water on, wet blanket). (various references)

Spanish

desalentar (damp, dampen, depress, deter, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispirit), intimidar de (dragoon), intimidar (browbeat, get at, get away, intimidate, overawe, put off, scare, trouble), arredrar (disjoin, disrupt, dissociate, drive back, remove, separate, unlink), acobardar (hector, intimidate, overawe, unman). (various references)

Swedish

skrämma (alarm, appal, appall, browbeat, bulldoze, cow, fright, frighten, horrify, intimidate, overawe, scare, spook, startle, terrify). (various references)

Turkish

yıldırmak (appall, be a disincentive to, browbeat, cow, deter, discourage, frustrate, mau-mau), korkutmak (administer a shock, affright, alarm, appal, appall, awe, bulldoze, cow, dismay, fright, frighten, funk, horrify, intimidate, overawe, scare, startle, terrorize, threaten), gözünü korkutmak (browbeat, call smb. over the coals, Hector, intimidate, threaten), cesaretini kırmak (be a disincentive to, dash, demoralize, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, enervate, screw up one's courage, tame, unman, unnerve). (various references)

Ukrainian

страхати (appal, appall), залякувати (ballyrag, bludgeon, bluff off, brag, browbeat, bull-dose, bully, cow, terrify, terrorize), лякати (affray, affright, appal, appall, consternate, fray, frighten, intimidate, panic, scare, shy), бентежити (abash, affront, bewilder, confound, confuse, damp, dank, disarray, discomfit, disconcert, discourage, dismay, disorder, embarrass, embrangle, flummox, muddle, overset, perplex, perturb, puddle, puzzle, upturn), приголомшувати (appal, appall, astound, bemuse, daze, dizzy, doze, dumbfound, jar, overwhelm, stun). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "daunt": daunted, daunter, daunters, daunting, dauntingly, dauntless, dauntlessly, dauntlessness, dauntlessnesses, daunts. (additional references)

Words ending with "daunt": grandaunt. (additional references)

Words containing "daunt": grandaunts, undauntable, undaunted, undauntedly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Daunt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aduna, baunt, Caunt, Daguet, dairnt, Dant, Danth, Dantz, daon, Daoust, daun, daune, daunte, daunti, daust, daut, Dauto, dauty, dawnt, Dbauto, deint, deun, dicunt, doint, dount, drunt, duant, duante, dunit, d'unite, dunt, raunt, Saunt, waunt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: aunt, daut, dunt, tuna.

-2 letters: and, ant, dun, nut, tad, tan, tau, tun, uta.

-3 letters: ad, an, at, na, nu, ta, un, ut.

+1 letter: daunts, tundra.

+2 letters: adjunct, astound, attuned, audient, daunted, daunter, dauting, dustman, dustpan, handout, haunted, jaunted, lunated, natured, nutated, outland, quanted, rotunda, standup, tamandu, taunted, tundras, unacted, unadult, unbated, undated, unitard, unmated, unrated, unsated, untamed, untaxed, untread, upstand, vaunted.

+3 letters: abducent, abundant, adducent, adjuncts, adjutant, adjuvant, aduncate, amounted, antidrug, antiqued, astounds, audients, auditing, audition, aunthood, autodyne, breadnut, chaunted, cuneated, daunters, daunting, debutant, denature, dentural, denudate, dianthus, duration, dustpans, dutchman, flaunted, guardant, handouts, headhunt, incudate, indurate, inundant, inundate, nonadult, outdance, outdrank, outdrawn, outlands, outstand, quadrant, rotundas, ruinated, sinuated, standout, sudation, tamandua, tamandus, tautened, thousand, transude, truanted, turbaned, unabated, unatoned, unbathed, uncoated, uncrated, underact, underate, undereat, undertax, undreamt, undulant, undulate, unhatted, unheated, unitards, unmatted, unparted, unsalted, unseated, unstated, unstayed, unsteady, untacked, untagged, untanned, untapped, untasted, unthawed, unthread, untoward, untraced, untreads, unwanted, unwasted, updating, upstands, urinated.