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Definition of awe in English: awenoun ɔːɔ mass noun1A feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder. 敬畏；景仰；惊叹 they gazed in awe at the small mountain of diamonds 他们敬畏地看着那一堆钻石。 the sight filled me with awe 这场景让我心生敬畏。 Example sentencesExamples - They were in awe of Brazil - or at least in awe of the myth of Brazilian football.
- She wondered what it felt like to have that kind of passion and was in awe of their desire to get the job done.
- For all his confidence, in a strange way he was in awe of some of the senior players and their experiences.
- I am thinking of awe, reverence, respect and emotions too deep for words.
- How easy is it to lose yourself and what's important to you when you meet someone who impresses you, or someone who fills you with awe, or fear?
- I was in the Dolomites with, you know, huge, soaring mountains and the locals were in awe of some of the famous routes in Scotland.
- Colin was in awe of the city and loved the view of the life he wished to live.
- No doubt I was in awe of him, but in any case I didn't really get to connect with him as a person.
- My feelings of annoyance quickly faded away and were replaced with feelings of awe and respect.
- No doubt they were in awe of her wonderful creation, not that she could blame them.
- All he said was how much he appreciated the comments and that he was in awe of being in the room with so many great players.
- Antarctica is indifferent to humans, but we humans are in awe of Antarctica.
- Maybe there were times when we were in awe of them for a short while before realising we were in those games with a chance of winning.
- He was in awe of China and pleaded that if India should progress it should learn a lesson or two from the communist regime.
- Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles.
- I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths and heights of our psychic nature.
- Winning the award, he says, is a measure of how far he's come since those days when he was in awe of the building and the people in it.
- Solitude: the word brings forth both hope and expectation of joy, fear and awe.
- Yet he was in awe of the young soldiers, many of whom have suffered debilitating injuries.
- Just maybe we can confront our place with awe and admiration, respect and veneration.
Synonyms wonder, wonderment, amazement, astonishment admiration, reverence, veneration, respect dread, terror, fear revere, worship, pay homage to, venerate, adulate, idolize, put on a pedestal, lionize, hero-worship, honour, love, respect - 1.1archaic Capacity to inspire awe.
〈古〉使人敬畏的力量，令人肃然起敬的能力 is it any wonder that Christmas Eve has lost its awe? 平安夜不再使人敬畏有什么奇怪吗？ Example sentencesExamples - Dubai retains its awe for much of the area's people, offering the traveller a multitude of reasons to visit.
- The Home Run Derby has already lost some of its awe and eventually these new games and contests would grow old and boring as well.
- The Metro has lost its awe, and I now feel like a true Muscovite as I monotonously ride the Metro without effort.
- The ministry has lost its awe and power.
Synonyms charisma, glamour, romance, mystery, fascination, magic, spell, charm, appeal, allure
verb ɔːɔ [with object]Inspire with awe. 使敬畏；使景仰 they were both awed by the vastness of the forest 他俩都被森林的广袤镇住了。 Example sentencesExamples - At the Metropolitan she awes nobody as the goddess of War.
- I didn't remember them being so vast, but was awed by the beauty of the fields of green and gentle rolling hills.
- As a struggling artist, this kind of thing inspires me and awes me.
- I was awed by it when it was a dump, and now that it's been buffed and spiffed it's even better.
- I am as always slightly awed by the sheer tragedy and futility of it all.
- Made of the local red sandstone, set on raised ground, and having the highest interior of all English cathedrals, it dominates the Merseyside skyline and awes worshippers.
- Once inside the park, you will be awed by the sheer scale and beauty of your surroundings.
- One of the things about Hal was you got a feeling he was awed by your talent.
- Everyone was awed by the moral implications of mass murder on such a grand scale.
- We inspect the deck cabin of newfound friends and are awed by its spaciousness.
- Inside the Abbey it was impossible not to feel awed by the history and the weight of what it means to be English.
- This led her back to the start of the circle, to the blue-and-yellow macaws that had awed her when she was a child.
- Neither of those buildings could be described as traditional - the Empire State Building awes you with its mass, not its subtle detail.
- The huge bell with its gigantic crack always awes visitors.
- But I'm awed by their desire to chronicle these experiences in such detail.
- Be awed by the untouched vastness of some of the oldest mountains on the planet.
- During the dream, I felt awed by how powerful the plot of my film was, but when I woke up I could not remember anything about it.
Synonyms filled with wonder, wonderstruck, awestruck, amazed, filled with amazement, astonished, filled with astonishment, lost for words, open-mouthed reverential terrified, afraid, fearful
Phrases his staff members are in awe of him 他的下属敬畏他。 Example sentencesExamples - In India I am frequently in awe of the sense of personal peace in the midst of apparent turmoil.
- I have always been in awe of the elephant - what a magnificent creature left over from the dinosaurs.
- He said the troops were in awe of the students' courage.
- I was very much in awe of him.
- I used to be in awe of people who got a lot of publicity.
- The rest of the girls sat in awe of our school hero.
- The Labour party was still in awe of its own election victory of 1945.
- I am in awe of Nature - her power, her whims.
- Serenity was in awe of some of the flowers.
- I was completely in awe of what he was doing.
Synonyms revere, worship, pay homage to, venerate, adulate, idolize, put on a pedestal, lionize, hero-worship, honour, love, respect
OriginOld English ege 'terror, dread, awe', replaced in Middle English by forms related to Old Norse agi. The battle plan for the 2003 invasion of Iraq by US-led forces was dubbed shock and awe. The phrase was not invented by President George W. Bush or Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, but came from Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance (1996), by the US strategic analysts Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade. The Old English word awe originally meant ‘terror or dread’. Gradually people started to use it to express their feelings for God, thereby introducing the senses of great respect and wonder. Both awful (Old English) and awesome (late 16th century) have become weaker in meaning over the centuries. Awful was originally used to describe things that caused terror or dread. Other old meanings included ‘awe-inspiring’ and ‘filled with awe’; the modern sense ‘extremely bad’ dates from the early 19th century. Awesome at first meant ‘filled with awe’. It later came to mean ‘inspiring awe’, and in the 1960s took on the rather weaker meaning of ‘overwhelming, remarkable, staggering’. Now it can just mean ‘great, excellent’, especially in the USA.
Rhymesabhor, adore, afore, anymore, ashore, bandore, Bangalore, before, boar, Boer, bore, caw, chore, claw, cocksure, comprador, cor, core, corps, craw, Delors, deplore, door, draw, drawer, evermore, explore, flaw, floor, for, forbore, fore, foresaw, forevermore, forswore, four, fourscore, furthermore, Gábor, galore, gnaw, gore, grantor, guarantor, guffaw, hard-core, Haugh, haw, hoar, ignore, implore, Indore, interwar, jaw, Johor, Lahore, law, lessor, lor, lore, macaw, man-o'-war, maw, mirador, mor, more, mortgagor, Mysore, nevermore, nor, oar, obligor, offshore, onshore, open-jaw, or, ore, outdoor, outwore, paw, poor, pore, pour, rapport, raw, roar, saw, scaur, score, senhor, señor, shaw, ship-to-shore, shop-floor, shore, signor, Singapore, snore, soar, softcore, sore, spore, store, straw, swore, Tagore, tau, taw, thaw, Thor, threescore, tor, tore, torr, trapdoor, tug-of-war, two-by-four, underfloor, underscore, war, warrantor, Waugh, whore, withdraw, wore, yaw, yore, your Definition of awe in US English: awenounɔô 1A feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder. 敬畏；景仰；惊叹 they gazed in awe at the small mountain of diamonds 他们敬畏地看着那一堆钻石。 the sight filled me with awe 这场景让我心生敬畏。 his staff members are in awe of him 他的下属敬畏他。 Example sentencesExamples - He was in awe of China and pleaded that if India should progress it should learn a lesson or two from the communist regime.
- They were in awe of Brazil - or at least in awe of the myth of Brazilian football.
- Yet he was in awe of the young soldiers, many of whom have suffered debilitating injuries.
- Winning the award, he says, is a measure of how far he's come since those days when he was in awe of the building and the people in it.
- For all his confidence, in a strange way he was in awe of some of the senior players and their experiences.
- Colin was in awe of the city and loved the view of the life he wished to live.
- Solitude: the word brings forth both hope and expectation of joy, fear and awe.
- No doubt I was in awe of him, but in any case I didn't really get to connect with him as a person.
- I was in the Dolomites with, you know, huge, soaring mountains and the locals were in awe of some of the famous routes in Scotland.
- My feelings of annoyance quickly faded away and were replaced with feelings of awe and respect.
- Antarctica is indifferent to humans, but we humans are in awe of Antarctica.
- No doubt they were in awe of her wonderful creation, not that she could blame them.
- Maybe there were times when we were in awe of them for a short while before realising we were in those games with a chance of winning.
- I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths and heights of our psychic nature.
- How easy is it to lose yourself and what's important to you when you meet someone who impresses you, or someone who fills you with awe, or fear?
- Just maybe we can confront our place with awe and admiration, respect and veneration.
- Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles.
- All he said was how much he appreciated the comments and that he was in awe of being in the room with so many great players.
- I am thinking of awe, reverence, respect and emotions too deep for words.
- She wondered what it felt like to have that kind of passion and was in awe of their desire to get the job done.
Synonyms wonder, wonderment, amazement, astonishment revere, worship, pay homage to, venerate, adulate, idolize, put on a pedestal, lionize, hero-worship, honour, love, respect - 1.1archaic Capacity to inspire awe.
〈古〉使人敬畏的力量，令人肃然起敬的能力 is it any wonder that Christmas Eve has lost its awe? 平安夜不再使人敬畏有什么奇怪吗？ Example sentencesExamples - Dubai retains its awe for much of the area's people, offering the traveller a multitude of reasons to visit.
- The Metro has lost its awe, and I now feel like a true Muscovite as I monotonously ride the Metro without effort.
- The ministry has lost its awe and power.
- The Home Run Derby has already lost some of its awe and eventually these new games and contests would grow old and boring as well.
Synonyms charisma, glamour, romance, mystery, fascination, magic, spell, charm, appeal, allure
verbɔô [with object]usually be awedInspire with awe. 使敬畏；使景仰 they were both awed by the vastness of the forest 他俩都被森林的广袤镇住了。 Example sentencesExamples - Neither of those buildings could be described as traditional - the Empire State Building awes you with its mass, not its subtle detail.
- I was awed by it when it was a dump, and now that it's been buffed and spiffed it's even better.
- I am as always slightly awed by the sheer tragedy and futility of it all.
- Be awed by the untouched vastness of some of the oldest mountains on the planet.
- The huge bell with its gigantic crack always awes visitors.
- During the dream, I felt awed by how powerful the plot of my film was, but when I woke up I could not remember anything about it.
- Inside the Abbey it was impossible not to feel awed by the history and the weight of what it means to be English.
- One of the things about Hal was you got a feeling he was awed by your talent.
- At the Metropolitan she awes nobody as the goddess of War.
- But I'm awed by their desire to chronicle these experiences in such detail.
- Once inside the park, you will be awed by the sheer scale and beauty of your surroundings.
- Everyone was awed by the moral implications of mass murder on such a grand scale.
- As a struggling artist, this kind of thing inspires me and awes me.
- This led her back to the start of the circle, to the blue-and-yellow macaws that had awed her when she was a child.
- I didn't remember them being so vast, but was awed by the beauty of the fields of green and gentle rolling hills.
- We inspect the deck cabin of newfound friends and are awed by its spaciousness.
- Made of the local red sandstone, set on raised ground, and having the highest interior of all English cathedrals, it dominates the Merseyside skyline and awes worshippers.
Synonyms filled with wonder, wonderstruck, awestruck, amazed, filled with amazement, astonished, filled with astonishment, lost for words, open-mouthed
OriginOld English ege ‘terror, dread, awe’, replaced in Middle English by forms related to Old Norse agi. |