Uttal

  • UttalUK
  • UttalUS
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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A feeling of fear and reverence.
  2. A feeling of amazement.

Verb

  1. (transitive) To inspire fear and reverence in.
  2. (transitive) To control by inspiring dread.

Exempel

  • For several minutes no one spoke; I think they must each have been as overcome by awe as was I. All about us was a flora and fauna as strange and wonderful to us as might have been those upon a distant planet had we suddenly been miraculously transported through ether to an unknown world.
  • Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
  • That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticipawed
Imperfektawed
Presensparticipawing
Tredje person singular indicativ presensawes