different between frighten vs daunt

English

Alternative forms

• freighten (obsolete)

Etymology

From fright +? -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?a?tn?/
• Rhymes: -a?t?n
• Hyphenation: frigh?ten

Verb

frighten (third-person singular simple present frightens, present participle frightening, simple past and past participle frightened)

1. (transitive) To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:frighten

Derived terms

• frightening

Translations

Anagrams

• fringeth

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fri?ten, fyrten

Etymology

From Old English fyrhtan; equivalent to fright +? -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?frixt?n/, [?friçt?n]

Verb

frighten

1. To frighten, scare

Conjugation

Descendants

• English: (to) fright (archaic)

References

• “frighten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-05.

English

Etymology

From Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin domit? (“tame”, verb), frequentative of Latin dom? (“tame, conquer”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *demh?- (“to domesticate, tame”). Doublet of dompt.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??nt/
• (some accents) IPA^(key): /d??nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d?nt/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /d?nt/
• Rhymes: -??nt, -??nt

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To discourage, intimidate.
2. (transitive) To overwhelm.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Dutan

Middle English

Verb

daunt

1. Alternative form of daunten