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overawed

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o·ver·awe  (vr-ô)
tr.v. o·ver·awed, o·ver·aw·ing, o·ver·awes
To control or subdue by inspiring awe.
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Adj.1.overawed - overcome by a feeling of awe
awestricken, awestruck, awed - having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread; "stood in awed silence before the shrine"; "in grim despair and awestruck wonder"
overawed
adjective intimidated, threatened, alarmed, frightened, scared, terrified, cowed, put off, daunted, unnerved Don't be overawed by people in authority.
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overawed [ˌəʊvərˈɔːd] adj → intimidé(e)
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So now, at last, the free town of Boston was guarded and overawed by redcoats as it had been in the days of old Sir Edmund Andros.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
I made no sign, but out of the corner of my eye I saw that the Yellow Handkerchief had discovered the emptiness of the pocket which had hitherto overawed him.
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Basilio has but this ewe-lamb, and no one, however powerful he may be, shall take her from him; these two whom God hath joined man cannot separate; and he who attempts it must first pass the point of this lance;" and so saying he brandished it so stoutly and dexterously that he overawed all who did not know him.
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