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over-awe

over-awe is the alternative form of overawe.

Meaning of overawe

Verb

overawe (third-person singular simple present overawes, present participle overawing, simple past and past participle overawed)

  1. (transitive) To restrain, subdue, or control by awe; to cow.
    • None doe you like, but an effeminate Prince, Whom like a Schoole-boy you may ouer-awe.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Forms of over-awe

third-person singular presentover-awes
present participleover-awing
past participleover-awed
pastover-awed

Questions about over-awe

What is over-awe the alternative form of?
Over-awe is the alternative form of overawe.

Words near over-awe in the dictionary

  1. over-assured
  2. over-Atlas
  3. over-Atlased
  4. over-Atlases
  5. over-Atlasing
  6. over-awe
  7. over-burning
  8. over-burnt
  9. over-canvassed
  10. over-celebrate
  11. over-celebrated

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