overawe
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Conjugated Forms
Present
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has overawedperfect 3rd person singular
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have overawedperfect
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are overawingprogressive
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is overawingprogressive 3rd person singular
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has been overawingperfect progressive 3rd person singular
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have been overawingperfect progressive
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am overawingprogressive 1st person singular
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overawingparticiple
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overawessingular 3rd person
Past
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had overawedperfect
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were overawingprogressive plural
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had been overawingperfect progressive
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overawedsimple
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was overawingprogressive singular
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overawedparticiple
Future
Etymology
Origin of overawe
Example Sentences
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Since conversion was thought to excuse conquest, these devotional artworks had to overawe their viewers.
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022
The challenge of Test cricket would not overawe him.
From BBC • Jan. 18, 2022
The West is more immediate and can still overawe the spectator with substantial remnants of its old annihilating grandeur.
From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2017
Hoping to overawe the people of the land, Lewis would let out a blast of his air rifle, a relatively new piece of technology the Native Americans had never seen.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Jonathan’s impetuosity, and the manifest singleness of his purpose, seemed to overawe those in front of him; instinctively they cowered, aside and let him pass.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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