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What does overawed mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of overawe
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Why be overawed by the task, or cowed by the abounding unbelief and false religion of our day?
Gordon himself was a real charmer but he puts on this volatile act for the cameras and I think our chef was totally overawed by him.
We were not overawed by their reputation as world champions, however, and physically there wasn't too much in it.
She is overawed by the moody magnificence of Glencoe, and entranced by the beauty of Edinburgh.
We were the only people in there at the time and the silence completely overawed us.
Crouching underneath two huge, tired-looking horse chestnut trees, we were overawed by the treasure trove among the fallen leaves.

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