Meaning & use
daunt
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To make someone feel intimidated or discouraged.
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The size of the mountain didn't daunt the experienced climbers.
She was daunted by the sheer number of applications she had to review.
A note on using this word
Daunt is most often used in the passive, as in 'be daunted by,' or negated, as in 'nothing daunted her,' to describe facing a challenge.
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Words with an opposite meaning
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