daunt

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /dɔːnt/    美 /dɔnt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To discourage, intimidate. transitive
    — [The English] valiantly, and with the ſlaughter of many, put backe the enemy: which was ſo farre from daunting the Normans, that by it they were more whetted to re-enforce themſelues vpon them[…]
  2. To overwhelm. transitive

词形变化

daunts present,singular,third-person daunting participle,present daunted participle,past daunted past

词汇关系

衍生词
dauntable daunted daunter daunting dauntingly dauntless dauntsome undauntable undaunted

词源

Etymology tree
Old French danterbor.
Latin domitō
Old French donterbor.
Middle English daunten
English daunt
From Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, donter (“to tame”), from Latin domitō (“tame”, verb), frequentative of Latin domō (“tame, conquer”, verb), from Proto-Italic *domaō, from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to domesticate, tame”). Doublet of dompt.
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