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PRONUNCIATION OF OVERAWE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERAWE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Overawe is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb overawe in English.

WHAT DOES OVERAWE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of overawe in the English dictionary

The definition of overawe in the dictionary is to subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO OVERAWE

PRESENT

Present
I overawe
you overawe
he/she/it overawes
we overawe
you overawe
they overawe
Present continuous
I am overawing
you are overawing
he/she/it is overawing
we are overawing
you are overawing
they are overawing
Present perfect
I have overawed
you have overawed
he/she/it has overawed
we have overawed
you have overawed
they have overawed
Present perfect continuous
I have been overawing
you have been overawing
he/she/it has been overawing
we have been overawing
you have been overawing
they have been overawing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I overawed
you overawed
he/she/it overawed
we overawed
you overawed
they overawed
Past continuous
I was overawing
you were overawing
he/she/it was overawing
we were overawing
you were overawing
they were overawing
Past perfect
I had overawed
you had overawed
he/she/it had overawed
we had overawed
you had overawed
they had overawed
Past perfect continuous
I had been overawing
you had been overawing
he/she/it had been overawing
we had been overawing
you had been overawing
they had been overawing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will overawe
you will overawe
he/she/it will overawe
we will overawe
you will overawe
they will overawe
Future continuous
I will be overawing
you will be overawing
he/she/it will be overawing
we will be overawing
you will be overawing
they will be overawing
Future perfect
I will have overawed
you will have overawed
he/she/it will have overawed
we will have overawed
you will have overawed
they will have overawed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been overawing
you will have been overawing
he/she/it will have been overawing
we will have been overawing
you will have been overawing
they will have been overawing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would overawe
you would overawe
he/she/it would overawe
we would overawe
you would overawe
they would overawe
Conditional continuous
I would be overawing
you would be overawing
he/she/it would be overawing
we would be overawing
you would be overawing
they would be overawing
Conditional perfect
I would have overawe
you would have overawe
he/she/it would have overawe
we would have overawe
you would have overawe
they would have overawe
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been overawing
you would have been overawing
he/she/it would have been overawing
we would have been overawing
you would have been overawing
they would have been overawing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you overawe
we let´s overawe
you overawe
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to overawe
Past participle
overawed
Present Participle
overawing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVERAWE


Dior
diːˈɔː
pledgeor
plɛdʒˈɔː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVERAWE

overamplified
overanalyse
overanalysis
overanalytical
overanalyze
overanxiety
overanxious
overapt
overarch
overarching
overarm
overarousal
overarrange
overassert
overassertion
overassertive
overate
overattention
overattentive
overawed

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVERAWE

awe
Beecher Stowe
Crewe
Crowe
ewe
Felixstowe
Great Zimbabwe
howe
Kitwe
krewe
Lilongwe
Loewe
Marlowe
owe
Rowe
shock and awe
Stowe
Van der Merwe
we
Zimbabwe

Synonyms and antonyms of overawe in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «overawe» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OVERAWE

Find out the translation of overawe to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of overawe from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «overawe» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

敬畏
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

intimidar
570 millions of speakers

English

overawe
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

overawe
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أرهب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

благоговение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

intimidar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বশীভূত করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

impressionner
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lebihan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

überwältigen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

威圧する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

위압당하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Overawe
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

overawe
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பயமுறுத்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Overawe
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sindirmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

intimidire
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

overawe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

благоговіння
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

intimida
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

overawe
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

donder
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

imponera
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overawe
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of overawe

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERAWE»

The term «overawe» is normally little used and occupies the 114.822 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERAWE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «overawe» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «overawe» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about overawe

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERAWE»

Discover the use of overawe in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overawe and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Prisoners' Rights
As to how it was intended to overawe the Government it was submitted that it was on account of IndoSri Lankan Accord, which the Government of India was to honour and that did not suit the aspirations of LTTE and thus the conspiracy was  ...
Colin Gonsalves, Vijay Hiremath, Rebecca Gonsalvez, 2011
2
Textbook on the Indian Penal Code
The first is a conspiracy to wage war against the Government of India, and the second is conspiracy to overawe by force the Central Government or State Government. Under this section the agreement of two or more persons to wage war ...
Krishna Deo Gaur, 2009
3
Returns and Papers Presented to the House of Lords ... in ...
Under this Clause the Punishment only extends to Persons who assault or restrain or overawe by means of riotous Assembly the Governor General, Governor, Deputy Governor, or Member of Council. As these high Functionaries are seldom ...
‎1852
4
Trials for high treason, in Scotland ... held at Stirling, ...
That statute declares, that it shall be Treason to compass, imagine, invent, devise , or intend to levy war against the King, provided the object be to compel him to change his measures and counsels, or to constrain or overawe both or either ...
Charles John Green, 1825
5
Trials for High Treason: In Scotland, Under a Special ...
That statute declares, that it shall be Treason to compass, imagine, invent, devise , or intend to levy war against the King, provided the object be to compel him to change his measures and counsels, or to constrain or overawe both or either ...
Scotland. Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery, Charles John Green, 1825
6
Aggression and Defense: Neural Mechanisms and Social Patterns
The author has observed attack for demonstration in four different situations: (a) when the leader uses it to warn others in order to overawe the whole troop; (b) when a lower individual wants to overawe a superior; (c) to overawe another troop ...
Carmine D. Clemente, Donald B. Lindsley, 1967
7
Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary
|tt£ to overawe; to oppress; to intimidate. ijj hazardous passes ; dangerous points. j(fj a husband's mother, ftil); he was ... )Ui to overawe. >':>1 acknowledged authority— prestige. UK power; authority; inlluence. ^ojj^ stern: terrible; dignified:  ...
Robert Henry Mathews, Minyuan Wang, Yuen Ren Chao, 1943
8
Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England: From the Norman ...
-—As far, then, as the bill respected the law of treason, in his opinion, it created new substantive treasons by constituting an attempt to overawe the parliament an overt act of treason. VVhat was to be construed an attempt to overawe the ...
William Cobbett, Great Britain. Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard, 1818
9
Fundamentals of Marketing
overawe. There are many books on marketing, purportedly for undergraduates, but very few are primers in the true sense. Also, most of the existing books compete with each other in collecting more and more flab, complexity and jargon.
Raju, 2009
10
The Soul of Kierkegaard: Selections from His Journals
Ultimately all doubt has its stronghold in the illusions of temporal existence, such as that one is several people or all mankind, who can in the end thus overawe God (just as the “ people ” overawe the King or the “public” overawe the alderman) ...
Søren Kierkegaard, Alexander Dru, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERAWE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term overawe is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Hearts give Gavin Reilly a new lease of life
It is a task which evidently does not overawe him, despite the fact he has never played top-flight football before. “It's such a shame for Soufian ... «Scotsman, Jul 15»
2
WHY NOT STRAIGHTAWAY ARREST DR M? Cops to probe bid to …
... or attempts so to overawe, such member shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be ... «Malaysia Chronicle, Jul 15»
3
Saft: China Pulling The Levers Nearest To Hand
China's resolve to overawe markets into rising seems to harden daily. Chinese media reported on Friday that the state-run China Securities ... «WealthManagement.com, Jul 15»
4
BreakingNews 20/7/15 - Secret Police Operations In Nigeria
... or constraint upon, or in order to intimidate or overawe any House of the National Assembly or any other legislative or legislation authority or «Nigeria Master Web, Jul 15»
5
Cambridge United Fans' Charter provides code of behaviour for fans
The charter encourages fans to "generate a noisy and passionate atmosphere... to overawe our opponents", but asks them to "refrain from ... «Cambridge News, Jul 15»
6
VIDEO: Wallabies stun South Africa with last minute win
The experience and guile of the veteran trio was tipped to overawe the young Springboks midfield, which shared a total of 12 caps with Handre ... «The Sunshine Coast Daily, Jul 15»
7
COLUMN-China pulling the levers nearest to hand: James Saft
China's resolve to overawe markets into rising seems to harden daily. Chinese media reported on Friday that the state-run China Securities ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
8
Analysis: As China suspends reality, sit tight
... attempts to overawe would-be sellers with a raft of powerful measures, all of them supportive of prices but injurious to the price-to-reality ratio. «STLtoday.com, Jul 15»
9
Plea to recuse could be contempt
... allegations or insinuations against Court and attempts to overawe the Court with psychological offensives and mind games, with ferocity and ... «The Hans India, Jul 15»
10
Wimbledon 2015: Maria Sharapova marches on with win over Irina …
Breaking the former champion's serve in the very first game suggested a show-court appearance would not overawe her and one cheeky drop ... «The Independent, Jul 15»

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