different between threaten vs daunt
threaten
English
Etymology
From Middle English þreaten or þreten, from Old English þr?atian.
Pronunciation
- enPR: thr?t?n?, IPA(key): /????t.n?/
- Hyphenation: threat?en
Verb
threaten (third-person singular simple present threatens, present participle threatening, simple past and past participle threatened)
- To make a threat against someone; to use threats.
- He threatened me with a knife.
- To menace, or be dangerous.
- The rocks threatened the ship's survival.
- To portend, or give a warning of.
- The black clouds threatened heavy rain.
- (figuratively) To be close to equaling or surpassing (a record, etc.)
- 2000, Lew Freedman, Diamonds in the Rough: Baseball Stories from Alaska, ?ISBN, page 69
- The player quickly surmised that things weren't kosher and the suddenly wiser ballplayer threatened the world record for the fifty-yard dash as he sought safety. As Reynolds dived into the van, Dietz and the other players rolled with laughter.
- 2000, Lew Freedman, Diamonds in the Rough: Baseball Stories from Alaska, ?ISBN, page 69
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Translations
threaten From the web:
- what threatens biodiversity
- what threatens coral reefs
- what threatened the sugarcane crop in the 1930’s
- what threatens the tundra biome
- what threatens our water supply
- what threatens the amazon rainforest
- what threatens the newly hatched chicks
- what threatens wetlands
daunt
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)
- (transitive) To discourage, intimidate.
- (transitive) To overwhelm.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Dutan
Middle English
Verb
daunt
- Alternative form of daunten
daunt From the web:
- what daunting means
- what dauntless job is tris considering
- what dauntless faction are you
- what dauntless mean
- what dauntless weapon are you
- what's daunting task
- dainty means
- what's daunting in german
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