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Overawed vs Overawe - What's the difference?

overawed | overawe |

As verbs the difference between overawed and overawe

is that overawed is (overawe) while overawe is to restrain, subdue, or control by awe; to cow.

overawed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (overawe)
    • One of the most depressing things about you, the people, says Daniel Hannan, is the way you're so overawed''' by experts.'' - Best articles: Britain: Our naive faith in non-political experts,''The Week'', 14 July 2007, ' 622 , 14.

    overawe

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (overaw)
  • To restrain, subdue, or control by awe; to cow.
  • * 1591 , (William Shakespeare), King Henry VI, part 1 :
    • None doe you like, but an effeminate Prince, Whom like a Schoole-boy you may ouer-awe .
  • * 1849 , , Mardi: and A Voyage Thither , Volume I, ch. 57:
    • 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 2002, p. 61:
    • He kept the biggest estates, and where he lacked troops to overawe the natives he evicted the natives and made a game reserve.

    Antonyms

    * underwhelm