Underawe vs Overawe - What's the difference?
underawe | overawe |
Underawe has no English definition.
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:
Underawe is likely misspelled.
Underawe has no English definition.
As a verb overawe is
to restrain, subdue, or control by awe; to cow.underawe
Not English
Underawe has no English definition. It may be misspelled.English words similar to 'underawe':
underlie, undertake, underline, undermine, underwire, underage, underdone, underrate, undertone, underside, undergone, underware, undervote, underuse, underripe, undersize, underbite, underate, underbake, underdose, undersave, underdope, undereye, unthrone, underne, untirable, unnature, undercome, underhole, untriable, undertime, undersee, underbone, undergoe, unattire, undrape, underwise, underyoke, undertie, unmitre, undertide, underride, underlive, untrite, underfireoverawe
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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.