Overawe
//əʊvəˈɹɔː//
"Overawe" in a Sentence (3 examples)
None doe you like, but an effeminate Prince, Whom like a Schoole-boy you may ouer-awe.
His free and easy carriage evinced, that though acknowledging my assumptions, he was no way overawed by them; treating me as familiarly, indeed, as if I were a mere mortal, one of the abject generation of mushrooms.
He kept the biggest estates, and where he lacked troops to overawe the natives he evicted the natives and made a game reserve.
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