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Underawe vs Overawe - What's the difference?

underawe | overawe |

Underawe is likely misspelled.


Underawe has no English definition.

As a verb overawe is

to restrain, subdue, or control by awe; to cow.

overawe

English

Alternative forms

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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