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awe English

Meaning awe meaning

What does awe mean?
Definitions in simple English

awe

Awe is a feeling of fear and reverence. Awe is a feeling of amazement.

awe

If someone is awed, fear and reverence is inspired in them.

awe

an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration he stared over the edge with a feeling of awe inspire awe in The famous professor awed the undergraduates (= fear, reverence, veneration) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something the fear of God the Chinese reverence for the dead the French treat food with gentle reverence his respect for the law bordered on veneration

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Conjugation awe conjugation

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awe · verb

Examples awe examples

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Simple sentences

Tom and his children watched in awe as the magnificent old steam train thundered past.
The night sky is beautiful and awe-inspiring.
Tom looks at Maria with awe.
The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.
The king inspires awe.
Mary is a woman who inspires awe in all who meet her.
I was in awe of Tom's courage.
I listened to this song on cassette tape at the beginning of my way with Christ; I'm feeling nostalgia and awe in my soul.

Movie subtitles

Built by the Ming dynasty in the early 1 5th century, these awe-inspiring buildings are a reminder of the last time China was a global leader.
The City was never in awe of the Crown, and the wealthier the City became, the more leverage it had.
I think you're still a little boy living over on Tenth Avenue. a little bit in awe of the girl from Murray Hill.
One is awe-stricken by this rendezvous with death.
Now are we well resolved, and by God's help and yours, the noble sinews of our power, France being ours we'll bend it to our awe or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, tombless, with no remembrance over them.
I'm not very impressionable. I lost my awe of women at an early age.
Awe-inspirin', isn't it? Majestic, that's what it is. - It does a man's soul good to.
Oh, my goodness, it's awe-inspiring.
Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls. for conscience is a word that cowards use. devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
Manny's faith in me is simply awe-inspiring, Mr Hunsecker.
Hitler was in awe of the nobility, but he hated it.
Fellow delegates, like all of you, I've listened in awe and admiration to the magnificent oratory of the Honourable Major Cassius Starbuckle. the cattlemen's mouthpiece.
What an awe-inspiring sight!
And they ran back in terror and in awe. And covered their ears.
I have always listened to you with awe, Oxenstierna.
We as Europeans strike the inhabitants with terrible awe, the entire village is shaken.
Awe that party's going to be awfully dull after this.
Awe, good connections.
Awe, you know Mr. Howe I believe.
Awe, may I see some of these ceramics? Those aren't for sale.
Awe, what a very interesting collection of pewter.
Awe there's no such things as ghosts and monsters.
Awe what you need is more faith and less imagination.
Awe, good evening Sergeant.
Awe let me see now.
Awe no thank you.
Awe, there you are.
In another half hour, he'll be in complete awe of me.
And again, this blood is only a drop, flowing by in the eternal stream of the life of your people, whom you owe everything, and whose source of origin therefore is the deepest and highest you can subserviently bow to in childlike awe.
TO AWE THEM, STAMP WITH THE FOOT, SPEAK IN A FEROCIOUS VOICE, AND LOOK THEM UNFLINCHINGLY IN THE FACE.
France being ours, we'll bend it to our awe, or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, tombless, with no remembrance over them.
The only way you can generate the proper attitude of awe and obedience. is by immense and disproportionate power.
Hitler was in awe of the nobility, but he hated it. That's why it's so ironic, what happened.
A commander should be as pure, so that his name may be held in very awe and dread.
I'm not some simple shepherdess you can awe.
I was suddenly filled with a sense of wonder and awe.
I stand in awe.
Three days hence, a new American champion will be crowned, for all the world to behold in awe, in respect, in fear.
I looked at Louie's face, and he just looked at Arnold with awe.
So death was greeted with a certain degree of awe.

News and current affairs

The world watches in awe, and hope, as the lives of 1.3 billion people continue to be transformed.
The other factors - equipment, coaching, and nutrition - contribute to an athlete's success but don't evoke the same awe or esteem.
The sheer number of projects--from highways, ports, railroads, and airports to skyscrapers, housing developments, telecom infrastructure, and industrial parks--leaves even skeptics gasping in awe.
China and India have become genuine competitors who deserve respect, if not sheer awe.
Only a few years ago, Iran's government seemed sufficiently in awe of the US to inch toward an agreement on its nuclear program that would have interrupted, and perhaps even halted, its enrichment activities.
What hampered Greenspan and Bernanke as financial regulators was that they were excessively in awe of Wall Street and what it does.
MOSCOW - When a tsar is treated with mockery, rather than regarded with awe, it is time for him to consider retirement, or to prepare for a palace coup.
The same mixture of fear and awe is often evident in people's views of the US, and, indeed, of the Jews.
Thus, for all its awe-inspiring economic achievement, China has made remarkably little progress in political liberalization.
During a recent trip with Ban to Egypt and Tunisia, I watched in awe as he deftly backed the democratic changes underway in those two countries while simultaneously dealing with many other upheavals in the region.