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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

- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- acknowledges that she is exactly the type of secretary he needs, as she is not overawed by him and he is 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- po****ce. For he [William] realised that it was of the first importance to overawe the Londoners". At the time, London was the largest town in England; the...
- Darcy's background that impresses Elizabeth, although she refuses to be overawed by it. Todd, Janet (2006). The Cambridge introduction to Jane Austen. Cambridge...
- merely a large-scale riot. The British government believed that they could overawe the Americans by sending a large military and naval force: Convinced that...