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Definition of Overawed

Overawed
Overawe O`ver*awe", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overawed; p. pr. & vb. n. Overawing.] To awe exceedingly; to subjugate or restrain by awe or great fear. The king was present in person to overlook the magistrates, and overawe these subjects with the terror of his sword. --Spenser.

Meaning of Overawed from wikipedia

- acknowledges that she is exactly the type of secretary he needs, as she is not overawed by him and he's unlikely to have an affair with her, which is likely the...
- Dame Thora Hird as his nagging wife, Edie, from 1986. Although initially overawed at working with Hird, Wharmby eventually started giving her "notes", to...
- Darcy's background that impresses Elizabeth, although she refuses to be overawed by it. Todd, Janet (2006). The Cambridge introduction to Jane Austen. Cambridge...
- It was as if he had come from the moon. Nothing disturbed him, nothing overawed him, nothing threw him off his game." Spotted by former Brazilian player...
- memorisation of a seven-page courtroom speech, delivering it in one go. An overawed Spielberg could not bring himself to call Hopkins "Tony" and insisted on...
- October 18, 2017. Retrieved October 18, 2017. Hill, Sarah H. (2011). "'To Overawe the Indians and Give Confidence to the Whites': Preparations for the Removal...
- firewood, and burn their bodies while still alive. Those who look on are overawed and consider it the attainment of enlightenment. This is erroneous. While...
- a private army to impress and overawe. ****rell 2006, p. 24. Gladiator gangs were used by Caesar and others to overawe and "persuade". Mouritsen 2001...
- space of the staircase – famously lit naturally with a skylight – so as to overawe visitors. The staircase and walls of the room that contained it were clad...
- son of his great-uncle Menelaus. Two traditions relate how Aeropus was overawed by either the insolence or the stratagems of the Lacedaemonian king Agesilaus...