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Abed vs Awed - What's the difference?

abed | awed |

As an adverb abed

is in bed, or on the bed; confined to bed .

As a verb awed is

(awe).

As an adjective awed is

filled with awe.

abed

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616),(Twelfth Night), II, iii
    • Not to be abed after midnight
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=[http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1519647W “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days], chapter=Ep./4/2
    • , passage=The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed .}}
  • To childbed
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616), (Titus Andronicus), IV, ii
    • "I mean, she's brought a-bed "

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    awed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (awe)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Filled with awe.
  • Having or showing awe.

    • Synonyms

    * (filled with awe) thunderstruck; awestruck, awestricken

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