name
Meaning 1
A surname from Middle English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
daunt
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /dɔːnt/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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US: /dɔnt/
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cot-caught-merger: /dɑnt/
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rhymes with -ɔːnt
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CMU ARPABET: D AO1 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To discourage, intimidate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To overwhelm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
cause to lose courage
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- dashed by the refusal
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: intimidate, restrain
History
Etymology
From Middle English daunten (“to subdue, intimidate”).
Etymology tree Old French danterbor. Latin domitō Old French donterbor. Middle English daunten English daunt From Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, donter (“to tame”), from Latin domitō (“tame”, verb), frequentative of Latin domō (“tame, conquer”, verb), from Proto-Italic *domaō, from Proto-Indo-European *demh2- (“to domesticate, tame”). Doublet of dompt.
Across languages
Translations
42 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: сплашвам (splašvam) — to discourage
- Catalan: acovardir — to discourage
- Catalan: intimidar — to discourage
- Chinese Mandarin: 使氣餒 /使气馁 (shǐqìněi) — to discourage
- Chinese Mandarin: 使畏縮 /使畏缩 (shǐwèisuō) — to discourage
- Czech: odradit — to discourage
- Czech: zastrašit — to discourage
- Dutch: afschrikken — to discourage
- Dutch: ontmoedigen — to discourage
- Esperanto: timigi — to discourage
- Finnish: pelottaa — to discourage
- French: décourager — to discourage
- French: intimider — to discourage
- French: démonter — to discourage
- German: abschrecken — to discourage
- German: entmutigen — to discourage
- German: einschüchtern — to discourage
- Italian: scoraggiare — to discourage
- Italian: intimidire — to discourage
- Portuguese: desencorajar — to discourage
- Portuguese: desaconselhar — to discourage
- Russian: устраша́ть (ustrašátʹ) — to discourage
- Russian: устраши́ть (ustrašítʹ) — to discourage
- Russian: пуга́ть (pugátʹ) — to discourage
- Russian: испуга́ть (ispugátʹ) — to discourage
- Russian: запу́гивать (zapúgivatʹ) — to discourage
- Russian: запуга́ть (zapugátʹ) — to discourage
- Spanish: descorazonar — to discourage
- Spanish: intimidar — to discourage
- Spanish: amedrentar — to discourage
- Spanish: amilanar — to discourage
- Swedish: avskräcka — to discourage
- Ukrainian: відверта́ти (vidvertáty) — to discourage
- Zazaki: terknayen — to discourage
- Zazaki: peyser kerden — to discourage
- Zazaki: xod şıkiyen — to discourage
- Bulgarian: обезкуражавам (obezkuražavam) — to overwhelm
- Czech: přemoci — to overwhelm
- Dutch: overweldigen — to overwhelm
- Finnish: musertaa — to overwhelm
- German: überwältigen — to overwhelm
- Spanish: agobiar — to overwhelm