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awing::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful |
Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent.
Examples of awing
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He got all A's his sophomore year, breezing through math and awing his English teachers.
From the nytimes.com
Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes,from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore,awing the earls.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I will miss watching the retraction of the roof as it lazily made its way open, awing even the most famous of performers.
From the post-gazette.com
China has a long history of awing visitors with structures that evoke size and power, epitomized by the Forbidden City.
From the courier-journal.com
It's inspiring and awing at the same time.
From the couriermail.com.au
He has managed to instil a discipline that evaded his laxer predecessors, awing the players and the media and banishing the WAGs.
From the economist.com
The Carlin routines were all about shocking and awing the comfortable through cutting edge comedy that usually included an outpouring of obscenities.
From the toledoblade.com
For nearly two decades, Boeing Co.'s massive 747 jumbo jet has served as the president's flying White House, awing world leaders and projecting America's might wherever it landed.
From the latimes.com
Even President Julius Nyerere felt constrained to stump through the countryside with his new Polaroid camera, awing prospective voters by handing out pictures he had just taken of them.
From the time.com
- 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: 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"
- (awed) inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence; "awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed heads"
- (awed) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread; "stood in awed silence before the shrine"; "in grim despair and awestruck wonder"
- A feeling of fear and reverence; A feeling of amazement; To inspire fear and reverence; To control by inspiring dread
- (awed) Filled with awe; Having or showing awe
- (awed) amazed, wowed, impressed
- Amazement, curiosity, admiration. An emotion of mingled reverence, dread, and wonder inspired by something majestic of sublime. Respect tinged with fear, for authority. The power to inspire reverence or fear.
