transitive. To render cowardly or timorous; to make afraid, daunt, intimidate.

transitive. To make (a person) cowardly or timid; to deprive of courage.

transitive. To render cowardly; to intimidate, cow, or make faint-hearted.

transitive. = accowardize, v.

= daunt, v.: To subdue, tame, intimidate, etc.

transitive. To daunt, depress (the heart, courage, etc.) with fear; to cause dejection; to dispirit. Now chiefly poetic.

To abate the courage of, discourage, dispirit; to put in awe, abash; to overcome with fear, intimidate, cause to quail. (The current sense.)

transitive. To subdue, daunt; to defeat.

= dishearten, v.

transitive. To deprive of ‘heart’ or courage; to discourage, dispirit, make despondent.

To make craven or cowardly, to render spiritless through fear.

To crush in spirit or temper; to discourage; to overcome, prevail upon (obsolete).

transitive. To deprive of spirit or courage.

transitive. To cause (a person, the mind, etc.) to lose courage or confidence. Also: to unsettle, disconcert. Also intransitive.

transitive. To make a coward of; to render cowardly; to daunt.

transitive. To daunt. northern dialect. Obsolete.

to put (a person) off his (also her) mettle: to undermine a person's courage. Obsolete. rare.