daunt
verb (used with object)
to overcome with fear; intimidate.
has daunted
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present perfectof daunt (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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I believe it’s made me stronger; noplace else I’ve ever been has daunted me in the slightest.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2010
The question has daunted anthropologists ever since 1871, when Charles Darwin grappled with it in his The Descent of Man.
From Time Magazine Archive
And over all there hangs a cloud of fear, The Spook of Dissolution all has daunted, And says as plain as whisper in the ear, The House is Haunted!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 21, 1892 by Various
You at least have not hesitated to undertake a work which has daunted the imagination of our ablest minds.
From The Purchase Price by Emerson Hough
Hunger has daunted me through all these dreary days.
From Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt
