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Definition: Overawed |
OverawedAdjective1. Overcome by a feeling of awe. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "overawed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: Overawed |
| Specialty definitions using "overawed": Rogue's Gallery. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "overawed": Overawe. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | We're overawed, that's our trouble. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Their presence dispelled the alarms of our fellow citizens on those disorders, and overawed the hostile purposes of the Indians. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Overawed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 86.44% of the time. "Overawed" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 86.44% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 13.56% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 59 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "overawed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | apeuré. (various references) | ||||
German | eingeschüchterte, eingeschüchtert (awed, browbeated, browbeaten, cowed, intimidated). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 気圧される (to be overawed), 気合い け (being overawed). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | きあいまけ (being overawed), けおされる (to be overawed). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | overaweday | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Overawed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: overaged. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: reavowed. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-o-r-v-w" | |
-1 letter: overawe, wavered. | |
-2 letters: avowed, avower, drawee, evader, overed, reaved, reavow, redowa, rewove, weaved, weaver. | |
-3 letters: adore, deave, dewar, dower, drave, drove, eared, eaved, erode, evade, oared, oread, raved, reave, rewed, roved, rowed, vowed, vower, wader, wared, waved, waver, weave. | |
-4 letters: aero, arvo, aver, avow, awed, awee, dare, dear, deer, dere, deva, doer, dore, dove. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-o-r-v-w" | |
+2 letters: overwarmed. | |
+3 letters: overwatered. | |
+4 letters: overshadowed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 76 65 72 61 77 65 64 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- ...- . .-. .- .--. . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110110 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110111 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O v e r a w e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0076 0065 0072 0061 0077 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4988718467897170 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, französisch, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | allemand, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | Japonais, japaner, japanisch, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ" |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | Japonais, japaner, japanisch, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ" |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglais, englisch |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Quotations: Speeches | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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