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OVERAWED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does overawed mean?
• OVERAWED (adjective)
The adjective OVERAWED has 1 sense:
1. overcome by a feeling of awe
Familiarity information: OVERAWED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Overcome by a feeling of awe
Similar:
awed; awestricken; awestruck (having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread)
Context examples
I made him a bow and felt very much overawed.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Sterndale sat down with a gasp, overawed for, perhaps, the first time in his adventurous life.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was touched by his gentle tone, and overawed by his high, calm mien.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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