daunt
verb (used with object)
to overcome with fear; intimidate.
had daunted
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past perfectof daunt.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He did not say, but John learnt afterwards, that it was probably his own fearlessness and activity which had daunted the besiegers.
From Settlers and Scouts by Herbert Strang
Occasionally, still with the rapt and fatal manner which had daunted the managing editor, he would pause and flex his wrist, and then suddenly deliver a ferocious thrust with his walking-stick.
From The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis
Before these adventurers, now eastbound and no longer facing west, there arose the vast and formidable mountain ranges which in their time had daunted even the calm minds of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
From The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West by Emerson Hough
She had hidden her sorrows in her heart; nothing had daunted her; no discouragement had cast her down.
From The Redemption of David Corson by Charles Frederic Goss
The gloomy strength of every thing about us, it seems, had daunted them.
From The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
