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Significats de overawe en anglès

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To inspire fear or hesitation due to fear.

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        These are not the men who can overawe the compact California community.
        The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
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        He must submit to our test even in order to overawe us.
        Heretics
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        They did enough damage to provoke, but not to overawe, the Indians.
        The Winning of the West, Volume 3 / The Founding of the Trans-Al...
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        Everything was done to demoralize, frighten and overawe judges, witnesses and jurors.
        The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. / Interviews
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        He will show fight, and it may save bloodshed to overawe him.
        Ronald Morton; or, the Fire Ships: A Story of the Last Naval War
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        China's resolve to overawe markets into rising seems to harden daily.
        Reuters
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        A strong fort must be built on the Illinois, to overawe the Indians.
        A School History of the United States
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        The magistrates, to their amazement, found they could not overawe the young upstart.
        Lloyd George: The Man and His Story
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        Heald had only sixty-six men, not nearly enough to overawe the surrounding Indians.
        The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812
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        They asserted that the real purpose of the troops was to overawe their governments.
        Formation of the Union, 1750-1829
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        You could not always overawe people, or bludgeon them, either.
        Wheel of Time [08]: The Path of Daggers
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        He may, indeed, build barrack after barrack to overawe them.
        Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
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        The grandeur there would overawe a beetle like Piper Hecht.
        Surrender to the will of the night
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        If they can't overawe us, by God, they'll assassinate us.
        Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
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        We accordingly stood in towards the town, hoping that our appearance would overawe the enemy.
        Ben Burton: Born and Bred at Sea
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        He practiced the politics of terror to overawe opposition.
        1492 the year our world began
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