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US
/ˈɑ, ˈɔ/
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[ UK /ˈɔː/ ]
[ UK /ˈɔː/ ]
NOUN
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a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
the French treat food with gentle reverence
the fear of God
the Chinese reverence for the dead
his respect for the law bordered on veneration -
an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration
he stared over the edge with a feeling of awe
VERB
-
inspire awe in
The famous professor awed the undergraduates
How To Use awe In A Sentence
- Then, as they approached the docks, the diggers stared in awe at the remains of the once-mighty Imperial Japanese Navy.
- He was in awe of China and pleaded that if India should progress it should learn a lesson or two from the communist regime.
- I can, however tell you that AB is absolutely freaking awesome!! What I've been doing this morning...
- The players were top drawer. The Sun
- The relationships between hagfishes, lampreys, and jawed vertebrates are one of the still-unresolved problems in craniate phylogeny.
- The beast was as huge as an aurochs, its glossy midnight mane shining in the sunlight as it pawed the ground restlessly with one forehoof.
- Chain car collisions on the Interstate, hysteria-tinged second by second updates from the weatherman on the local TV stations, a stunned, awestricken look from the locals that almost made one think that this was surely the first time they had ever seen this precipitation thing occurring. Election Central Sunday Roundup
- A mouse has gnawed its way through the telephone wire.
- All democratic associations or groups were outlawed. Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
- So return to him, O thou monk, and say that the single combat shall take place to morrow, for this day we have come off our journey and are aweary; but after rest neither reproach nor blame fear ye. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night