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overawing

overawing is the present participle and gerund 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 overawing

comparativemore overawing
superlativemost overawing

Words formed from overawing

Questions about overawing

What is overawing the present participle and gerund of?
Overawing is the present participle and gerund of overawe.

Words near overawing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overawing (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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