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UK
/ˈɔːd/
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[ US /ˈɔd/ ]
[ US /ˈɔd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence
awful worshippers with bowed heads
awed by the silence -
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
How To Use awed In A Sentence
- 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.
- A mouse has gnawed its way through the telephone wire.
- All democratic associations or groups were outlawed. Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
- Although the strategy was flawed by its excessive voluntarism, it did force the party to modernize itself.
- The assembled opposition members, journalists and tourism industry heavies were slack-jawed.
- Fancy an heir that a father had seen born well-featured and fair, turning suddenly wry-nosed, club-footed, squint-eyed, hair-lipped, wapper-jawed, carrot-haired, from a pride become an aversion, -- my case was yet worse. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
- Fear gnawed at her soul.
- A rat had gnawed a hole in the box.
- Sure enough, this Heller language has served to protect a remarkable variety of federal gun restrictions challenged since Heller, including bans on gun possession by felons, domestic violence misdemeanants, and persons under restraining orders, bans on sawed-off shotguns and machine guns, laws restricting guns in school zones, post offices, and other public property, and others. Dennis A. Henigan: The Gun Issue Is Back in the Supreme Court: What Does It Mean?