What's the difference between distraught and overawed?

Distraught


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Distract
  • (a.) Torn asunder; separated.
  • (a.) Distracted; perplexed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Their families are said be be distraught at the news and have been clinging to the hope their daughters would want to come home.
  • (2) They’re all really distraught because this is another new year for them on Nauru,” she said.
  • (3) Following the statement, distraught relatives of Chinese passengers attacked Malaysia for announcing the crash and loss of life without direct proof, and for wasting the best chance to rescue those on board.
  • (4) Aware of the likely sensitivity around the issue, programme-makers had already made last-minute cuts to the New Year's Eve episode, including shots of a distraught Ronnie touching the cold hand of her dead baby, and Kat in blood-soaked pyjamas after her husband finds her haemorrhaging in her bed.
  • (5) He’s still distraught at not getting in to Old Trafford.
  • (6) And even though she was visibly distraught after the verdict was read out she feels that it wasn't going to be any other way.
  • (7) Distraught, I brought it into the office on Monday to gauge the opinions of my fashion colleagues.
  • (8) David Miliband was leaning hard towards quitting two days ago – "too distraught, too disappointed" said one ally – but if he had any doubts they were settled by the spat over the Iraq war he had with Harriet Harman , picked up by the TV cameras, during his brother's keynote speech to conference as leader on Tuesday.
  • (9) The Duchess was left distraught and broke down sobbing during the proceedings.
  • (10) The way everyone was distraught at the final whistle, meant this game was always going to be like this.
  • (11) She added, they are "scared and distraught, can't believe it's true, don't want it to be true".
  • (12) Those who want to say something about the atrocities in the Middle East may indeed be genuinely distraught, they may feel that the need to pass on this visual information places them on some unquestionable moral high ground.
  • (13) An elderly woman, distraught over the recent death of her husband, was found dead of an apparent suicide.
  • (14) Earlier in the day, Anthony Little, the brother-in-law of the uspect, emerged from the house and told NBC4 the family were "distraught".
  • (15) Aaron Campbell was at his girlfriend’s flat and was said to be distraught over the death of his brother, whom he had nursed before he succumbed to heart disease and kidney failure.
  • (16) Sitting with the child and parents in my office and seeing how distraught they all were was heartbreaking.
  • (17) At one point, he became so distraught that Judge Brian Keith interrupted proceedings to tell Adoboli that he shouldn't be embarrassed about becoming overrun by his emotions, and that it gave the jury a chance to "see the man behind the name".
  • (18) The action was described by Miss F as having left her mother, who had no involvement in the disagreement, "totally distraught" in the last weeks of her life.
  • (19) He is able to speak but obviously he’s absolutely distraught – he’s absolutely broken.
  • (20) Distraught and weeping, she was surrounded by reporters and cameramen.

Overawed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Overawe

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is a real stunned silence in that room, people are overawed."
  • (2) "It looked like we were overawed and I don't know why," he said.
  • (3) Continued to fight but was starved of the ball once City scored Ki Sung-yueng 6 Retained possession well in the first half and kept things ticking along for Sunderland although, as the game progressed, became slightly overawed in midfield Sebastian Larsson 6 Scurried around for the hour that he was on the pitch.
  • (4) "People feel overawed by the internet and what they turn up when they are searching," said Highfield.
  • (5) "We have been overawed by the amount of support and practical help from people in Bristol - and especially her close friends Emma and Becky.
  • (6) It wasn’t just that she was overawed by the spectacle, although she was: stuff I took for granted – lasers, pyrotechnics, confetti cannons, all the usual bells and whistles of a big pop show – were a constant source of overwhelming sensory overload.
  • (7) Maybe he was overawed by playing alongside Iago Aspas.
  • (8) Lord Dyson, the Master of the Rolls, has described to the justice select committee how unrepresented litigants often “dry up” and become overawed by court procedures, failing to present their claims adequately.
  • (9) The first album I'd ever bought was Ziggy Stardust and I owned all his others, so it was overawing, but he was really generous as a performer.
  • (10) While some teenagers may feel overawed at such an incredible trajectory of progress, Okoye takes it in his stride.
  • (11) Their fairly comfortable (we'll get to Michael Gspurning…) victory over a rather overawed Colorado Rapids sees them coming into tonight's game hoping that the playoffs are something of a fresh start.
  • (12) Never overawed 7 Andros Townsend Direct and eager in possession to test Azpilicueta, plenty of urgency down the flank, although unable to conjure a telling delivery 6 Christian Eriksen Belted an early free-kick on to the bar to promise much but, thereafter, was otherwise peripheral where Spurs needed him to be integral 5 Nacer Chadli Should offer so much more given his physique but he air-kicked at his best opportunity and only offered occasional flashes of his quality 5 Harry Kane Dropped deep to inspire two early chances, dribbling at panicked opponents, but denied a goal by Terry’s fine block 6
  • (13) From "the ritual of the hunt; the pomp of assizes (and all the theatrical power of the law courts); the segregated pews, the late entries and early departures at church" to the splendour of their wealth and hauteur of bearing and expression – all was a performance calculated to overawe the vulgar and extract deference.
  • (14) On Sunday, we will have a pre-game training session and on Monday we will have our normal preparation for a normal game.” Middlesbrough are not likely to be overawed by the occasion: this season, they were outstanding in beating Manchester City 2-0 at the Etihad in the FA Cup, and were unlucky to go out of the Capital One Cup to Liverpool 14-13 on penalties after a pulsating 2-2 draw at Anfield.
  • (15) US Open 2015: Johanna Konta ready for tough encounter with Andrea Petkovic Read more With her long black socks, tattooed arms and orange dyed hair, Mattek-Sands appeared a player not overawed by the spotlight and she exploded out of the blocks under the lights of Arthur Ashe.
  • (16) It was all too much for an overawed Kernodle, who never turned up, but the remaining three delivered a sparse, vibrant rendition of a brand new Cash song, Hey Porter.
  • (17) My theory is that people who come into Downing Street are quite often overawed by being here.
  • (18) Yet Bilic is counting on his players to rise to the occasion, rather than be overawed by it.
  • (19) Initially, the Welsh team seemed to find it hard to play to John Charles, almost as if they were overawed.
  • (20) "The height and breadth of them is breathtaking and you really do feel overawed when you're standing beneath them."

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