Daunt
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English
Verb
Daunt (third-person singular simple present Daunts, present participle Daunting, simple past and past participle Daunted)
- To discourage, intimidate.
- To overwhelm.
Synonyms for Daunt
intimidate, discourage, scare, frighten, dishearten, dismay, terrify, appal.
Antonyms for Daunt
encourage, assist, aid, help, embolden, succor, stimulate, animate, incite.
Derived terms
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
