Thesaurus: awe

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1. n. Dread; great fear mingled with respect.
2. n. The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence.
3. v. t. To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread.
4. n. an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration
5. n. a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
6. v. inspire awe in
7. To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; tocontrol by inspiring dread.That same eye whose bend doth awe the world. Shak.His solemn and pathetic exhortation awed and melted the bystanders.Macaulay.
8. v:15/n:85 n. an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration v. inspire awe in