Overawe
11overawe — o|ver|awe [ˌəuvərˈo: US ˌouvərˈo:] v [T usually passive] to make someone feel respect or fear, so that they are nervous or unable to say or do anything ▪ He was totally overawed by his father. >overawed adj …
12overawe — [[t]o͟ʊvərɔ͟ː[/t]] overawes, overawing, overawed VERB: usu passive If you are overawed by something or someone, you are very impressed by them and a little afraid of them. [be V ed] Don t be overawed by people in authority, however important they …
13overawe — o·ver awe || ‚əʊvÉ™(r) É”Ë v. terrify; frighten into submission …
14overawe — verb subdue or inhibit with a sense of awe …
15overawe — v. a. Awe, intimidate, cow, frighten, affright, daunt, browbeat …
16overawe — verb (T) to make someone feel respect or fear so that they become very quiet: overawed by the great man s booming voice …
17overawe — verb Jane was overawed by her landlady Syn: intimidate, daunt, cow, disconcert, unnerve, subdue, dismay, frighten, alarm, scare, terrify; informal psych out …
18overawe — v intimidate, cow, awe, daunt, dismay, abash, disconcert, Inf. faze, frighten, appall; domineer, browbeat, bully, threaten, hector, buffalo out of or into, bluster, bulldoze, coerce, compel, dragoon; dominate, lord it over, subdue, bend to one s… …
19overawe — See: overawed …
20overawe — o•ver•awe [[t]ˌoʊ vərˈɔ[/t]] v. t. awed, aw•ing to restrain or subdue by inspiring awe; intimidate • Etymology: 1570–80 …
