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verb

daunt

CEFR C1

to make someone feel intimidated or apprehensive

In a sentence

Six example sentences with daunt, each labelled with its topic.

  • The final hill on the course daunts most first-time riders, who dismount and walk the last two hundred meters.

    Fitness

  • A hall that seats three thousand daunted the young cellist until the first phrase steadied both hands.

    Music

  • The final boss daunted the whole server for a week, until one player posted a pattern anyone could follow.

    Gaming

  • The size of the incumbent daunted the founders at first, until they noticed how slowly it shipped anything.

    Startups

  • The mountain pass daunted us from the valley, but the switchbacks turned out gentle and the top came before noon.

    Travel

  • The sheer scale of the genome daunted early researchers, who expected the sequencing to take a century.

    Science

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