overawe
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
/əʊvəˈɹɔː/
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/əʊvəˈɹɔː/ · /oʊvɚˈɔ/ · /oʊvɚˈɑ/ (US) · /oʊvɚˈɒ/ · /əʉvəˈɹoː/ · /ɐʉvəˈɹoː/
Definition of overawe
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To restrain, subdue, or control by awe; to cow.
“None doe you like, but an effeminate Prince, Whom like a Schoole-boy you may ouer-awe.”
“His free and easy carriage evinced, that though acknowledging my assumptions, he was no way overawed by them; treating me as familiarly, indeed, as if I were a mere mortal, one of the abject generation of mushrooms.”
“He kept the biggest estates, and where he lacked troops to overawe the natives he evicted the natives and made a game reserve.”
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Etymology
From over- + awe.
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