英语词汇“overawe”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

overawe

释义

overawe, v.|əʊvərˈɔː|
[over- 21.]
trans. To restrain, control, or repress by awe; to keep in awe by superior influence.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Feb. 142 The Oake..with shame and greefe adawed, That of a weede he was ouerawed [ed. 1597 ouercrawed].1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, i. i. 36. 1683 Brit. Spec. Pref. 8 Acknowledged by all our Ancient Parliaments, that were neither over-awed by Force, nor seduced by Faction.1754–62Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) V. lxx. 273 That he might..overawe the mutinous people.a1832Mackintosh Rev. of 1688, Wks. 1846 II. 23 The jury were at length over⁓awed into a verdict of ‘guilty’.
Hence overawed |-ˈɔːd| ppl. a.; oveˈrawing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1593Tell-Troth's N.Y. Gift 37 They say that overawing makes fooles.1625Bp. R. Montagu App. Cæsar ii. ii. 125 Councils have no such over-awing power.1805Foster Ess. i. iv. 57 Over-awed timidity.1899J. Stalker Christol. of Jesus ii. 83 note, The effect is overawing in a high degree.

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