awe
/ɔ/ verb C1- To inspire fear and reverence in.
- To control by inspiring dread.
He/she/it awes · Past awed · Past participle awed · -ing form awing
Verb forms
- Base form
- awe
- He/she/it
- awes
- Past
- awed
- Past participle
- awed
- -ing form
- awing
From the library
“That was it,” said Lestrade, in an awe-struck voice; and we were all silent for a while.
Rachel found abundant time to sit for hours at her kitchen window, knitting “cotton warp” quilts--she had knitted sixteen of them, as Avonlea housekeepers were wont to tell in awed voices--and keeping a sharp eye on the main road that crossed the hollow and wound up the steep red hill beyond.
I just gazed at her in awe.
“Just think, Diana, I’m thirteen years old today,” remarked Anne in an awed voice.
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