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Adjective: daunting  don-ting
  1. Discouraging through fear
    "China faces daunting internal challenges";
    - intimidating
Verb: daunt  dont
  1. Cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away
    "daunted by the refusal";
    - dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare

See also: discouraging

Type of: intimidate, put the frigheners on [Brit, informal], put the screws on [informal]

Encyclopedia: Daunt, Michael