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Что (кто) такое overawe - определение


overawe      
¦ verb subdue or inhibit with a sense of awe.
Overawe      
·vt To awe exceedingly; to subjugate or restrain by awe or great fear.
overawe      
(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
Примеры употребления для overawe
1. You are not a coercer over them" (88:21–22); "You are not one to overawe them by force.
2. With the help of the media, the Australians have cultivated an image of swag ger and arrogance, and have used it to overawe opponents.
3. He held chairs of English at Adelaide, Leeds and Stirling and, never one to revise Hamlet while Macbeth waited to be written, published in such profusion as to overawe the most inquisitorial of research assessment boards.
4. One of the many Tories who have shadowed Brown describes him as a ‘uniquely intimidating‘ presence at the dispatch box, especially when ‘he fixes you with that baleful eye‘. The capacity to overawe opponents is a great asset.
5. Their insignia, one analyst noted, includes a passage from the Koran that reads, "Prepare any strength you can muster against them, and any cavalry with which you can overawe God‘s enemy and your own enemy as well, plus others besides them whom you do not know."