(v. t.) To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten.
Example Sentences:
(1) But to endure a cut of £100m just after becoming the mayor and a further £23m this year has been daunting.
(2) Despite campaign pledges from both leading parties that, if elected, they will try to cushion the blow, the measures add amount to a daunting legislative programme from which Greece’s new prime minister – whatever his name – will find it difficult, if not impossible, to deviate.
(3) They rightly perceive that there is a better chance that retailers can get it to them there.” James Daunt, chief executive of the bookstore chain Waterstones , said its online deliveries were being delayed by “one or two days” as a result of problems at its courier service, Yodel, which has been overwhelmed with demand from the retailers it serves.
(4) It's daunting, but St Louis have the bats and thus the best chance of any team in the NL to wipe out LA, who, despite losing Matt Kemp for the season, can hit a little bit as well.
(5) "In the past that kind of thing has been quite daunting.
(6) With pressure mounting in the US for the launch of a full-blooded inquiry into News Corporation under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the daunting consequences of such a move are becoming evident.
(7) Here's a summary of where things stand: • A Senate hearing on the crisis of child immigration to the United States laid bare a daunting tangle of overlapping bureaucracies charged with handling each child's case.
(8) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
(9) After a successful convention they came back thrilled by the speeches and daunted by the prospects .
(10) It is very important now to continue that good vibe.” Spurs have already played the four clubs ahead of them in the table, as well as the four directly below, and now embark on a sequence of fixtures that, on paper at least, would appear to be less daunting.
(11) It is a story that is rarely told in large part because of the technical difficulties — the physics and maths underlying the technique can appear daunting.
(12) The planning, establishment, financing and general organization of a Diabetic Screening Service within a District Health Authority can be a daunting task if not handled correctly.
(13) There is, however, no mention of the service for which the co-operative has now become famous – as the alleged headquarters of a mafia-style criminal gang that through a network of links with politicians and businessmen appears to hold a daunting influence over the Italian capital.
(14) Hurley stated, "Protracted fever of obscure cause remains one of the more daunting clinical challenges facing the physician.
(15) Roy Hodgson oversaw England's return to the top of Group H but still left the national stadium frustrated after admitting a comfortable victory had been "overshadowed" by a harsh booking for Danny Welbeck that will rule him out of Tuesday's daunting game in Ukraine.
(16) Meanwhile for victims and defendants, the court process is slow, inefficient and daunting .
(17) Keith Forsyth had trouble picking the lock, which was daunting.
(18) That may well be a tongue-in-cheek comment, but Musk's determination to tackle daunting technological challenges is undoubted.
(19) "At the moment things look daunting, but everyone said that the opening up of television in America to cable would result in a race to the lowest common denominator and just look at the list of wonderful programmes that has brought us.
(20) It’s a big ask.” West Brom, who remain seven points above the bottom three but face a daunting set of fixtures that includes the top three and Liverpool, had designated this fixture Jeff Astle Day, in memory of the striker who died from chronic traumatic encephalopathy in 2002.
Gaunt
Definition:
(a.) Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
Example Sentences:
(1) On a snowless but chilly afternoon early in the Moscow winter, a 29-year-old man with a gaunt, emaciated face stepped on to the vast expanse of Red Square.
(2) "I am an old lady, and have many grandchildren," she says, pointing to the gaunt, grubby faces baking around her in the tent.
(3) This gaunt, haunting visage (which, in the story, turned out to belong to a deliberately frightening dummy) appeared in Star Trek's end credits almost every week, and was guaranteed to scare the shit out of me whenever it did so.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest He commands the screen even when silent, his pain flitting across that gaunt, ravaged face … Sean Bean in Broken.
(5) In March, Paul Nuttalls called for Johnny and the Baptists to be banned from any venue receiving public subsidy – basically everywhere – for doing a funny song about the Ukips, even though the same places host Jim Davidson, Roy Chubby Brown, John Gaunt and Top Gear; the same week Farage defended the booking of an old-school non-PC comic at the Ukips’ conference saying: “Let people tell their jokes!
(6) Whoops and cheers turned to screams of delight as a gaunt-looking figure mounted the steps and slowly approached the microphone.
(7) It showed a woman of mournfully beautiful gauntness, jacket draped over her shoulder.
(8) Or maybe John of Gaunt had it right: “That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.” Main illustration by Christophe Gowans • Follow the Long Read on Twitter at @gdnlongread , or sign up to the long read weekly email here This article was amended on 21 June 2016.
(9) Furthermore Orange RN which by azo reduction yields ANSA (and aniline) induce the same effect in pigs (Olsen et al., 1973) but not in rats (Gaunt et al., 1971).
(10) Perhaps it is the classically gaunt face, or maybe it is the aquiline nose, but he looks exactly like Don Quixote.
(11) A gaunt-looking Shalit told Egyptian TV that he hoped the deal would promote peace between Israel and the Palestinians and also spoke of his desire to see freedom for thousands of others Palestinians still held by Israel .
(12) Before the attack for which I was arrested, no one in Balochistan knew I had disappeared,” he said, dressed in a navy blue hooded sweatshirt, drinking a coffee with a gaunt look in his eyes as he nervously twisted a rolled up cigarette in his hand.
(13) He was gaunt and frail, living from one morphine dose to the next.
(14) At my father's bedside, I learned what death looks like Read more For many Glaswegians, Possilpark has a reputation, one resented deeply by its residents, built on images of drug addicts and alcoholics clustered on street corners, of gaunt men and women with hardened, ruined faces queuing outside pharmacies at 7.30am for their methadone handouts.
(15) The son of a police officer, Gaunt is hailed as "the monster who roars for coppers" on the website of the Metropolitan police federation .
(16) Abandoned farms dot the landscape: gaunt timber-framed skeletons, their owners given up and gone to California or Seattle.
(17) Bin Laden appeared gaunt and apparently wounded in a video.
(18) The Everton manager, who looks gaunt and shattered after a dreadful festive period, conceded: “We are still in a very bad run and need to turn it around.
(19) They criticise the decision to fund a £15,000-a-month contract with the Gaunt Brothers, a PR company, to use "blitzkrieg" and "guerrilla" tactics was a major error that damaged the Fed's reputation.
(20) It shows Litvinenko gaunt and emaciated on his hospital bed, and is the last image of him alive, the inquiry heard.