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overawes

overawes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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]...

Questions about overawes

What is overawes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overawes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overawe.

Words near overawes in the dictionary

  1. overavaricious
  2. overawe
  3. overawed
  4. overawer
  5. overawers
  6. overawes
  7. overawful
  8. overawing
  9. overawingly
  10. overbait
  11. overbaited

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overawes (page history and authors); overawe (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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