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[ UK /ˈɔːd/ ]
[ US /ˈɔd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence
    awful worshippers with bowed heads
    awed by the silence
  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

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?
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