What is the meaning of awed?

verb

  • Inspire awe in.
    • usage: "The famous professor awed the undergraduates"

adjective

  • Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
    • usage: "awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed heads"
  • 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"
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