What is the meaning of awing?

verb

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

adjective

  • Inspiring awe or admiration or wonder.
    • usage: "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"
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