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View definitions for overawe

overawe

verb as in daunt

verb as in dazzle

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Example Sentences

Scotland may be an Associate nation, with a fraction of the funding and resources of a full member like England, but they were not overawed by the occasion.

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Despite being the youngest player to start a competitive match for Scotland since Willie Johnston in 1965, he did not look overawed or cowed.

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Pausing to reflect, the singer is momentarily overawed.

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Hearts looked somewhat overawed by the occasion, and struggled to retain possession under relentless pressure from a revived Rangers.

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They could have easily been overawed by the barrage of PSG pressure their side were under when they were introduced but they turned the game on its head.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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