overawe
pronunciation
How to pronounce overawe in British English:
UK [ˌəʊvərˈɔ:]
How to pronounce overawe in American English:
US [ˌoʊvərˈɔ]
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- Verb:
- subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats)
Word Origin
- overawe (v.)
- 1570s, from over- + awe (v.). Perhaps coined by Spenser. Related: Overawed; overawing.
Example
- 1. The statistics still have the power to overawe us .
- 2. Truth does not strike a pose to overawe people but talks and acts honestly and sincerely .
- 3. We should do our work honestly , take an analytical approach , write convincingly and never strike a pose to overawe people .
- 4. Bynum is a center with height and weight , if can he play well on defense and be tougher on low post offense , he 's still have advantage and overawe in the paint .
- 5. The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant and to make the gulf between poverty and success seem both wide and deep .