overawe
See also: over-awe
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edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əʊvəˈɹɔː/
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- (General American) IPA(key): /oʊvɚˈɔ/
- Rhymes: -ɔː
- Hyphenation: over‧awe
Verb
editoverawe (third-person singular simple present overawes, present participle overawing, simple past and past participle overawed)
- (transitive) To restrain, subdue, or control by awe; to cow. [from 16th c.]
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- None doe you like, but an effeminate Prince, Whom like a Schoole-boy you may ouer-awe.
- 1849, Herman Melville, “ch. 57”, in Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, volume I:
- 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.
- 2000, Alasdair Gray, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 61:
- 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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