yet, so far, up to this point.
-v. 7. (all of a particular period) belong to, origi
nate in, come from.
8. show one's age; become obsolete, obsolesce, pass out of use or style, be dated.
9. make a date with, make an appointment with; escort, squire, take out; go out with, go with, go steady with; go around together, keep company with, SI. hang out together.
10. fix the period of, determine the date of, assign a date to.
dated, adj. out-of-date, back-number, passd, outmoded, out-of-style, old-fashioned, Inf. old hat; obsolete, obsolescent, no longer used, gone by the boards, forgotten.
daub, v. 1. smear, besmear, bedaub, cover, coat, plaster, Inf. slapdash, Inf. slap on.
2. begrime, soil, dirty, sully, bedraggle, draggle, muddy; smudge, smirch, spatter, splatter, slop, spot, stain; defile, deface, befoul.
-n. 3. smear, smudge, smirch, spot, patch, Inf. mess, Inf splot. daunt, v. 1. intimidate, unnerve, dismay, petrify, frighten, affright, scare, Archaic, amate; overawe, terrorize, threaten, browbeat, bully, bulldoze, cow; disconcert, alarm, appall, take aback, Inf. take the fight out of, shake up.
2. dishearten, discourage, dispirit, unman, tame; deter, set back, put off, check, thwart, shake, take the heart out of, Inf. take the starch out of; bring low, deject.
daunted, adj. 1. dismayed, intimidated, cowed, unnerved, unmanned, disheartened, overawed, subdued, overcome, demoralized, Inf. broken, Inf. psyched out; fearful, afraid, frightened, terrified, tim
id, timorous, cowardly, appalled, alarmed.
2. deterred, put off, set back, Inf. thrown for a loss, checked, frustrated, blocked; reluctant, hesitant, without the heart for [s.t.].
3. abashed, disconcerted, discomfited, disappointed, discouraged, disillusioned, deflated, dispirited, spiritless, dejected, downcast, depressed, sad.
dauntless, adj. intrepid, daring, venturesome, bold, audacious, Rare, impavid; fearless, undaunted, Spartan, brave, valorous, courageous, unafraid, unaffrighted; indomitable, unconquerable, stout-hearted, lion-hearted, valiant, heroic; resolute, doughty, unflinching, unshrinking, unappalled; stalwart, plucky, game, hardy, high-spirited, gritty, Inf. spunky, mettlesome; manly, manful, chivalrous, gallant; confident, self-reliant.
dawdle, v. 1. waste time, take one's time or one's own sweet time, kill time, fritter time away; idle, trifle, finick, potter, fiddle, piddle, Inf. fiddle-faddle; dally, dilly-dally, procrastinate, Inf diddle, shilly-shally, vacillate.
2. loiter, poke, loll, hang around, mill around; slouch, loaf, daydream, Inf lallygag; lounge, vegetate; lag behind, move at a snail's pace, work bankers' hours.
3. shirk, SI. goof off, lie down on the job; fool around, mess around, SI. screw around, do nothing.
dawdler, n. laggard, lingerer, loiterer; lie-abed, slugabed, layabout, dreamer, lotus-eater, drone, lounger; snail, slowpoke, tortoise, afternoon farmer, lazybones; loafer, faineant, do-nothing, sluggard, sloth, idler, trifler; shirker, SI. goof-off, goldbrick, slouch; lubber, clod, dawn, n. 1. daybreak, sunrise, sunup, aurora, cockcrow, daylight, daypeep; break of day, peep of day, crack of dawn, dawning, early light, Archaic.