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overawed

About 0.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb simple past and past participle of overawe
  2. adjective Impressed or convinced by someone to an unreasonable degree, sometimes with an implication of gullibility.
    One of the most depressing things about you, the people, says Daniel Hannan, is the way you're so overawed by experts. - Best articles: Britain: Our naive faith in non-political experts,The Week, 14 July 2007, 622, 14.

Similar words

awed awestricken awestruck in awe of astonished intimidated stunned astounded astonied overwhelmed

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by the and them him or at in his

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