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daunt 音标拼音: [d'ɔnt] vt. 威吓,难倒,使气馁 威吓,难倒,使气馁 daunt v 1: cause to lose courage; " dashed by the refusal" [ synonym: { daunt}, { dash}, { scare off}, { pall}, { frighten off}, { scare away}, { frighten away}, { scare}] Daunt \ Daunt\ ( d[ add] nt; 277), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Daunted}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Daunting}.] [ OF. danter, F. dompter to tame, subdue, fr. L. domitare, v. intens. of domare to tame. See { Tame}.] 1. To overcome; to conquer. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] 2. To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten. [ 1913 Webster] Some presences daunt and discourage us. -- Glanvill. Syn: To dismay; appall. See { Dismay}. [ 1913 Webster] 78 Moby Thesaurus words for " daunt": 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
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