1. present participle of 'daunt': to make someone feel intimidated or discouraged

1. seeming difficult to deal with; causing someone to feel intimidated or discouraged
Usage: variant spelling of 'daunting'; less common

Examples

• The size of the project was dauting at first, but we broke it into smaller steps.
• She found the prospect of public speaking dauting, but she prepared thoroughly.
• The dauting climb up the mountain tested everyone's endurance.
• Despite the dauting odds, the team refused to give up.
• Learning a new language can be dauting, but practice makes it easier.
• The dauting list of tasks seemed impossible until we started working through it.