Overawes vs Overawed - What's the difference?
overawes | overawed |
(overawe)
To restrain, subdue, or control by awe; to cow.
* 1591 , (William Shakespeare), King Henry VI, part 1 :
* 1849 , , Mardi: and A Voyage Thither , Volume I, ch. 57:
* 2000 , (Alasdair Gray), The Book of Prefaces , Bloomsbury 2002, p. 61:
(overawe)
As verbs the difference between overawes and overawed
is that overawes is third-person singular of overawe while overawed is past tense of overawe.overawes
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Verb
(head)overawe
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Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(overaw)- None doe you like, but an effeminate Prince, Whom like a Schoole-boy you may ouer-awe .
- 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.
- He kept the biggest estates, and where he lacked troops to overawe the natives he evicted the natives and made a game reserve.
Antonyms
* underwhelmoverawed
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Verb
(head)- 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.