awe
noun
an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, or the like.
had awed
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past perfectof awe.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In two days, the balding, 33-year-old father of four had awed the fans and numbed the Reds.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 24, 2020
What did strike me at the time of its release was how much it had awed so many critics.
From Slate ● Jan. 9, 2013
NASA's long-range television cameras had been following Challenger's shiny * white rocket plume, recording the graceful roll that had awed the spectators.
From Time Magazine Archive
When a welfare investigator called, Madam X had "awed" him by appearing in a mink coat and a mink hat.
From Time Magazine Archive
The time was now approaching when superstition, and folly, and vice, were to be relieved from the satiric pencil which had awed them so long—the health of Hogarth began to decline.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 382, July 25, 1829 by Various
