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awe-bound

awe-bound is the alternative form of awebound.

Meaning of awebound

Adjective

awebound (comparative more awebound, superlative most awebound)

  1. (dated, rare) Feeling paralyzed, restrained, or deeply held in check by a profound sense of awe, reverence, or dread.
    • A new situation is therefore being created. The Central Europe States stood awebound and asked: [...] What was to be done?1912 November 3, New York Times, “Austria's Bold Move.”, in The New York Times 1912-11-03: Vol 62 Iss 20007
    Synonyms:
    awestricken

Forms of awe-bound

comparativemore awe-bound
superlativemost awe-bound

Questions about awe-bound

What is awe-bound the alternative form of?
Awe-bound is the alternative form of awebound.

Words near awe-bound in the dictionary

  1. AWDS
  2. AWDWWITK
  3. awe
  4. awe walk
  5. awe walks
  6. awe-bound
  7. awe-ful
  8. awe-full
  9. awe-inspire
  10. awe-inspired
  11. awe-inspires

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Adapted from Wiktionary: awe-bound (page history and authors); awebound (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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