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Meanings of
daunt
in English
Portuguese
assustar
Catalan
desanimar
Spanish
asustar
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Cause to lose courage.
dash
scare
pall
scare off
frighten off
scare away
frighten away
Portuguese
assustar
To inspire fear or hesitation due to fear.
cow
intimidate
faze
overawe
Synonyms
Examples for "
cow
"
cow
intimidate
faze
overawe
Examples for "
cow
"
1
Semihard; skim; blue-veined; made of all three milks:
cow
,
goat and sheep.
2
Soft; whole milk; originally goat, now
cow
;
made throughout the Rhone Valley.
3
In Ireland the following folk-beliefs obtain regarding the ass and the
cow
:
-
4
The goosey-gander stood in the doorway and looked into the
cow
shed.
5
All the cussedness of the bovine race is centred in the
cow
.
1
Sweeping bans and collective punishments
intimidate
those who can challenge established interests.
2
The 32-year-old man used a knife to
intimidate
his victims into submission.
3
Can we use this information to
intimidate
or blackmail the hiring manager?
4
They come through the village and
intimidate
you and
intimidate
your children.
5
Some Sunni residents say the crackdown is being used to
intimidate
them.
1
Oddly, the denizens of the Quartier didn't
faze
her in the least.
2
She was all business again, so maybe Jane's comment didn't
faze
her.
3
Those challenges did not seem to
faze
Patience Alifo, 23, from Ghana.
4
You deal with so much there that most things don't
faze
you.
5
In an unbearably tense, closely fought series, nothing seemed to
faze
him.
1
These are not the men who can
overawe
the compact California community.
2
He must submit to our test even in order to
overawe
us.
3
They did enough damage to provoke, but not to
overawe
,
the Indians.
4
Everything was done to demoralize, frighten and
overawe
judges, witnesses and jurors.
5
He will show fight, and it may save bloodshed to
overawe
him.
Usage of
daunt
in English
1
It did not
daunt
Alwin; it only helped to warm his blood.
2
Snow piled up in the streets did not
daunt
them at all.
3
Even the ominous signs of tempest did not
daunt
the two captains.
4
What Wolfe saw and found out was enough to
daunt
any general.
5
Even the storm at its height could not
daunt
such furious riders.
6
Nought will
daunt
those lads till the hangman is at their throats.
7
He had expected disasters, and the first one did not
daunt
him.
8
Her vast bulk and sheer walls of steel did not
daunt
them.
9
I felt that no amount of slander or disgrace would
daunt
you.
10
The wise he could persuade, and the smaller folk he could
daunt
.
11
He had survived so much that coming dangers could not
daunt
him.
12
Such behavior may have perplexed Potts, but
daunt
him it could not.
13
The water was middling rough that night, but it didn't
daunt
Anthony.
14
Does the task
daunt
you? His glance and voice were alike harsh.
15
But nothing could
daunt
the courage or quench the zeal of the missionaries.
16
The task of inducing him to impart it did not
daunt
Mrs. Porter.
Other examples for "daunt"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
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daunt
Verb
Indicative · Present
Frequent collocations
daunt the courage
daunt most
daunt a body
daunt any general
daunt even
More collocations
Translations for
daunt
Portuguese
assustar
intimidar
desalentar
Catalan
desanimar
espantar
esglaiar
acoquinar
acovardir
descoratjar
Spanish
asustar
espantar
Daunt
through the time
Daunt
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common