different between terrify vs daunt

English

Alternative forms

• terrifie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French terrifier, from Latin terrificare

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???fa?/

Verb

terrify (third-person singular simple present terrifies, present participle terrifying, simple past and past participle terrified)

1. To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.
2. To menace or intimidate.
3. (obsolete) To make terrible.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:frighten

Related terms

• terrible
• terrific
• terrifying
• terror
• terrorist
• terrorize

Translations

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