daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare
(verb) cause to lose courage; “dashed by the refusal”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
daunt (third-person singular simple present daunts, present participle daunting, simple past and past participle daunted)
(transitive) To discourage, intimidate.
(transitive) To overwhelm.
• Dutan
Source: Wiktionary
Daunt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Daunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Daunting.] Etym: [OF. danter, F. dompter to tame, subdue, fr. L. domitare, v. intens. of domare to tame. See Tame.]
1. To overcome; to conquer. [Obs.]
2. To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten. Some presences daunt and discourage us. Glanvill.
Syn.
– To dismay; appall. See Dismay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 June 2025
(verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; “he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
