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Daunt vs Defray - What's the difference?

daunt | defray |

As verbs the difference between daunt and defray

is that daunt is to discourage, intimidate while defray is (obsolete) to spend (money).

daunt

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • to discourage, intimidate
  • to overwhelm

    • Derived terms

    * daunted * daunter * daunting * dauntingly * dauntless * undaunted

    defray

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To spend (money).
  • To pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something).
  • * 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.29:
    • The expenses of the war, while in progress, were defrayed by executing rich men and confiscating their property.
  • * 2009 , ‘A Viennese grind’, The Economist , 30 Jul 2009:
    • Investors, meanwhile, got back a fraction of their money. Some say Mr Meinl’s €100m bail, paid by a source in Liechtenstein, should be used to defray their losses.
  • * 2010 , Roy Greenslade, The Guardian , 9 Dec 2010:
    • In order to help defray the substantial costs involved, they then raised revenue through taking advertisements.
  • To pay for (something).

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