Dompt

Quick meaning: Dompt is a verb meaning (transitive, rare) To bring (something) under control; to overcome, to subdue.

Meaning

(transitive, rare) To bring (something) under control; to overcome, to subdue.

Example Sentences

A hero dompts Mattatias, too, a hero of rare astuteness, one who, as we watch, fends off by his quick wits the pogrom which he sees impending over Jerusalem.

Another knife-handle, this time of ivory from Gebel el-Arak, has been carved to show on one face combats between men and boats with standards and upturned ends and on the other a man dompting two lions.

Seeing then that courteſy will dompt the ſavage bird, which, by nature, is devoid of reaſon; much more ſhould it maſter and diſarm the untractableneſs of man or woman; be they ever ſo haughty, fierce or forbidding.

Peace is "at home" […] [to all] who, with labour patient and hopeful, have made the wildernesses of the world to blossom as the rose, have dompted and domesticated the winds and lightning to message-birds of business and friendship; […]

Word Forms

• dompts
• dompting
• dompted

Synonyms for dompt

Depending on context, synonyms include daunt.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include subdue, subdew, abandon, reduce, underbring, overpower.

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