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Daunt v. t. (past & past part. daunted; pres. part. daunting)

To overcome; to conquer. (Obs.)

To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten. "Some presences daunt and discourage us."

Synonyms: To dismay; appall. See Dismay.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Misha had to sit for five hours at the bottom of the ravine; and when they dragged him out, it appeared that he had a dislocated shoulder. But this did not daunt him in the least. On the following day a blacksmith bone-setter set his shoulder, and he used it as though nothing were ...

— A Reckless Character - And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev

... In carnage took no part; As if my comrade's feet Were set on some radiant street Such as no darkness might haunt; As if my comrade's eyes, No deluge of flame could surprise, No death and destruction daunt, No red-beaked bird dismay, ...

— The Second Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse

... Peggotty had told him, in Dover, and that was seventy miles away; but the distance did not daunt him. So one day he put all his things into a box and hired a boy with a cart to take it to the coach office. But the boy robbed him of all the money he had (a gold piece Peggotty had sent him) and drove off with his box besides, and poor David, crying, set out ...

— Tales from Dickens • Charles Dickens and Hallie Erminie Rives

... think. But, courage! "Hope points before to guide us on our way," and, as yet, there is nothing in the prospect but what is bright and inspiriting, surely; nothing to diminish our youthful energy, nothing to daunt our British pluck! The past lies behind us, with its sweet and tender recollections, and with a softened sense of remembrance of those failures and sadnesses and bitternesses that are linked with them. Now our ...

— Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) - or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand • William Delisle Hay

... viking life was the noblest and most honourable that a man could follow; he believed that the truest title to all property was given by winning it with the sword, and very soon he became as wild and reckless as any sea rover on the Baltic. No danger, howsoever great, had power to daunt him, or to lessen his joy in the fresh freedom of the open sea with its wild hoarse winds and its ...

— Olaf the Glorious - A Story of the Viking Age • Robert Leighton

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