daunt
verb (used with object)
to overcome with fear; intimidate.
will daunt
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future tenseof daunt.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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None of this, however, will daunt Count Coudenhove-Kalergi.
From Time Magazine Archive
Answered the crew: "No hardships, danger or privation will daunt us."
From Time Magazine Archive
Cease your complaints, and bear his body hence; The dreadful sight will daunt the drooping Thebans, Whom heaven decrees to raise with peace and glory.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Sir Walter Scott
I hope for their own sakes that the troops will daunt them; for nothing could come of this but an unseemly scuffle which would distress the ladies.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
I don't imagine it will daunt her, in the least, but I can have my fun, at any rate.
From Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. Pearson
