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Daunted for a day (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

awed

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'daunted for' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with human feelings as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'a day' is the wordplay.
'day' becomes 'wed' (abbreviation for Wednesday).
'a'+'wed'='AWED'

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(Other definitions for awed that I've seen before include "Overcome with reverence or wonder" , "Impressed deeply" , "Struck with fear/wonder" , "was dazzling" , "Made to feel fear/wonder" .)

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