overawe
verb (used with object)
to restrain or subdue by inspiring awe; intimidate.
overawes
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present tense formof overawe (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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In the same way, these young people live in the light of the history of cinema, of the great age of Hollywood and the classic European cinema that also overarches and overawes the moderns.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2014
"The building is a personal statement by Rudolph," he says, "and it overawes a student who is looking for a place to make his own personal statement."
From Time Magazine Archive
It seems to me that any wilderness untamed must have that same effect; it overawes one.
From The Land of Frozen Suns by Bertrand W. Sinclair
Still Brutus overawes him by his moral energy and elevation of character, and by the open-faced rectitude and purity of his principles.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black
He who overawes the nations, In thy mighty noise confessed, Groaned and sighed with troubled spirit, By our guilt and sin oppressed.
From Favourite Welsh Hymns Translated into English by Joseph Morris
