(overawes, overawing, overawed)
If you are overawed by something or someone, you are very impressed by them and a little afraid of them.
Don't be overawed by people in authority, however important they are...
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed
• overawed
Benjamin said that he had been rather overawed to meet one of the Billington family.
ADJ: usu v-link ADJ