The word "daunt" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to mean to cause someone to feel discouraged or intimidated. For example, "The dark alley daunted him and he decided to turn around and go a different way."
Others are proudly partisan, creating echo chambers that admit no contrary facts or opinions.The press needs punters, as well as patronsThere is no reason to think that today's magnates are entering the newspaper business to kill it: funding a decent title should not daunt a billionaire.
Some of the ballots will exceed 50 pages, which will surely daunt even the minority of voters who can read.Many may fail even to get to see a ballot paper.
Then again, career politicians are strange people, willing to risk horrors that would daunt other folk.
Labelled "Bioterrorist Bach" by the shrill, fear-mongering media, a panicked Els hits the road and becomes a fugitive.Mr Powers, an American writer, has a reputation for delivering the kind of cerebral books that woo critics and daunt readers.
It is a challenge that might daunt even a native of the planet Krypton.
The "j6m" of his autobiography, which Mr Messier to his credit adopts with humour, refers to his nickname on "Les Guignols des Infos", a satirical Canal Plus TV show: Jean-Marie Messier Moi-Même, Maître du Monde (Myself, Master of the World).What Mr Messier has taken on would daunt anybody.
The State Department then blew $4m on launching Hi, an Arabic language publication, aimed at young Arabs, that avoided polarising matters such as politics in favour of such inclusive themes as the, er, growing interest of Americans in Arabic poetry.These failures do not daunt Mr Reinhard, who blames the involvement of the government.
That will present protocol issues to daunt even the slickest Vatican insider.
Though only introduced a couple of weekends ago, HotBox are not letting their inexperience daunt them, and their mouth-watering Sunday menu cannot fail to impress even the most seasoned brunch-goers.
Irwin does not believe expectations on Shaw will daunt him.
"Does it daunt you or put you off?
