overawe
verb/əʊvəˈɹɔː/UK/oʊvɚˈɔ/US/oʊvɚˈɒ/CA/əʉvəˈɹoː/
Etymology
Definitions
To restrain, subdue, or control by awe
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.
- 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.
The neighborhood
- antonymunderwhelm
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA