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awed adjective [ ɔːd ]

• filled with awe or wonder.
• "he spoke in a hushed, awed whisper"

awe verb

• inspire with awe.
• "they were both awed by the vastness of the forest"
Similar: filled with wonder, wonderstruck, awestruck, amazed, filled with amazement, astonished, filled with astonishment, lost for words, open-mouthed, reverential, terrified, afraid, fearful,
Origin: Old English ege ‘terror, dread, awe’, replaced in Middle English by forms related to Old Norse agi .


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