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overawe

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7 lettersPronunciation /əʊvəˈɹɔː/Part of speech verbSorted aeeorvwStarts with OEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats)

Word origin

From over- + awe.

Used in a sentence

  • None doe you like, but an effeminate Prince, Whom like a Schoole-boy you may ouer-awe.
  • His free and easy carriage evinced, that though acknowledging my assumptions, he was no way overawed by them; treating me as familiarly, indeed, as if I were a mere mortal, one of the abject generation of mushrooms.
  • He kept the biggest estates, and where he lacked troops to overawe the natives he evicted the natives and made a game reserve.

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