Definition of "overawes" [overawes]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overawe. (verb)

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• "As the succession of canvases delights the eye and overawes scrutiny, there is renewed reverence and increased respect."
• "Butler, though a man brave by principle, if not by constitution, was overawed; for intensity of mental distress has in it a sort of sublimity which repels and overawes all men, but especially those of kind and sympathetic dispositions."
• "He overawes his opponents, and their allies are prevented from joining against him."