• (British) IPA: /dɔːnt/
• (some accents) IPA: /dɑːnt/
• (America) IPA: /dɔnt/
• (cot-caught) IPA: /dɑnt/

daunt (daunts, present participle daunting; past and past participle daunted)

1. (transitive) To discourage, intimidate.
   • 1623, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Harold the Second of that Name, the Sonne of Earle Goodwine, and Thirtie Eight Monarch of the English-men, […]”, in The Historie of Great Britaine vnder the Conqvests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], 2nd revised and enlarged edition, London: Printed by Iohn Beale, for George Hvmble, […], OCLC 150671135 ↗, paragraph 38, page 424A ↗, column 1:

     [T]hey [the English] valiantly, and with the ſlaughter of many, put backe the enemy: which was ſo farre from daunting the Normans, that by it they were more whetted to re-enforce themſelues vpon them: [...]

2. (transitive) To overwhelm.

• French: décourager, intimider, démonter
• German: abschrecken, entmutigen, einschüchtern
• Italian: scoraggiare, intimidire
• Portuguese: desencorajar, desaconselhar
• Spanish: descorazonar, intimidar, amedrentar, amilanar

• German: überwältigen
• Spanish: agobiar