adawed

adawed is the simple past and past participle of adaw.

Meaning of adaw

adaw (third-person singular simple present adaws, present participle adawing, simple past and past participle adawed)

(obsolete, transitive) To daunt, overcome, subdue.
- He, comming home at undertime, there found / The fayrest creature, that he euer saw, / Sitting beside his mother on the ground; / The sight whereof did greatly him adaw.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13

adaw (third-person singular simple present adaws, present participle adawing, simple past and past participle adawed)

(obsolete) To awaken, arouse.
- And hir awook, and thus to hir he cried, "Woman, what is that, that in thin hand I see? What hast thou doon, woman, for him that diede, What wickid spirit hath travaylid the?" And as sone as that adawed was she, The knyfe fel oute of hir hand in the bedde, And she bihilde the cloothis al forbledde...1544, Gesta Romanorum

adawed (comparative more adawed, superlative most adawed)

(archaic) Daunted, overwhelmed.
- Therewith she gan at first to change her mood, / As one adaw'd, and halfe confused stood […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

comparative	more adawed
superlative	most adawed

What does adawed mean?: Adawed means daunted, overwhelmed.
What is adawed the simple past and past participle of?: Adawed is the simple past and past participle of adaw.
What part of speech is adawed?: Adawed is an adjective.

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