awed

Adjective
Synonyms: awfulawestruckawestricken

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

  1. inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence“awed by the silence”“awful worshippers with bowed heads”Synonyms: awful
  2. having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread“stood in awed silence before the shrine”“in grim despair and awestruck wonder”Synonyms: awestruckawestricken
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Awe \Awe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Awed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Awing.] To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread. [1913 Webster]

That same eye whose bend doth awe the world. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

His solemn and pathetic exhortation awed and melted the bystanders. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]

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