To inspire fear or hesitation due to fear.
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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