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daunts

daunts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of daunt.

Meaning of daunt

Verb

daunt (third-person singular simple present daunts, present participle daunting, simple past and past participle daunted)

  1. (transitive) To discourage, intimidate.
    • [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[…]1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Harold the Second of that Name, the Sonne of Earle Goodwine, and Thirtie Eight Monarch of the Englishmen, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the...
  2. (transitive) To overwhelm.

See all 3 meanings of daunt

Proper noun capitalized: Daunts

Daunts

  1. (plural) plural of Daunt

Questions about daunts

What is daunts the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Daunts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of daunt.
What part of speech is daunts?
Daunts is a proper noun.

Words near daunts in the dictionary

  1. dauntings
  2. dauntless
  3. dauntlessly
  4. dauntlessness
  5. Daunton
  6. daunts
  7. Dauntsey
  8. dauntsome
  9. daunyng
  10. dauphin
  11. Dauphin County

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