verb
- Inspire awe in.
- usage: "The famous professor awed the undergraduates"
- synonyms: awe
adjective
- Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
- usage: "awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed heads"
- synonyms: awful
- Having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread.
- usage: "stood in awed silence before the shrine"; "in grim despair and awestruck wonder"
- synonyms: awestruck, awestricken
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