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Meanings of overawe in English
Synonyms
Examples for "cow"
Examples for "cow"
1
Semihard; skim; blue-veined; made of all three milks: cow, goat and sheep.
2
Soft; whole milk; originally goat, now cow; made throughout the Rhone Valley.
3
In Ireland the following folk-beliefs obtain regarding the ass and the cow:-
4
The goosey-gander stood in the doorway and looked into the cow shed.
5
All the cussedness of the bovine race is centred in the cow.
1
Sweeping bans and collective punishments intimidate those who can challenge established interests.
2
The 32-year-old man used a knife to intimidate his victims into submission.
3
Can we use this information to intimidate or blackmail the hiring manager?
4
They come through the village and intimidate you and intimidate your children.
5
Some Sunni residents say the crackdown is being used to intimidate them.
1
It did not daunt Alwin; it only helped to warm his blood.
2
Snow piled up in the streets did not daunt them at all.
3
Even the ominous signs of tempest did not daunt the two captains.
4
What Wolfe saw and found out was enough to daunt any general.
5
Even the storm at its height could not daunt such furious riders.
1
Oddly, the denizens of the Quartier didn't faze her in the least.
2
She was all business again, so maybe Jane's comment didn't faze her.
3
Those challenges did not seem to faze Patience Alifo, 23, from Ghana.
4
You deal with so much there that most things don't faze you.
5
In an unbearably tense, closely fought series, nothing seemed to faze him.
Usage of overawe in English
1
These are not the men who can overawe the compact California community.
2
He must submit to our test even in order to overawe us.
3
They did enough damage to provoke, but not to overawe, the Indians.
4
Everything was done to demoralize, frighten and overawe judges, witnesses and jurors.
5
He will show fight, and it may save bloodshed to overawe him.
6
China's resolve to overawe markets into rising seems to harden daily.
7
A strong fort must be built on the Illinois, to overawe the Indians.
8
The magistrates, to their amazement, found they could not overawe the young upstart.
9
Heald had only sixty-six men, not nearly enough to overawe the surrounding Indians.
10
They asserted that the real purpose of the troops was to overawe their governments.
11
You could not always overawe people, or bludgeon them, either.
12
He may, indeed, build barrack after barrack to overawe them.
13
The grandeur there would overawe a beetle like Piper Hecht.
14
If they can't overawe us, by God, they'll assassinate us.
15
We accordingly stood in towards the town, hoping that our appearance would overawe the enemy.
16
He practiced the politics of terror to overawe opposition.
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