(v. t.) To awe exceedingly; to subjugate or restrain by awe or great fear.
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."
Reassure
Definition:
(v. t.) To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror.
(v. t.) To reinsure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(2) On taking advice from the security and policing services, I gave a broad reassurance that those communities would not be at risk.
(3) Reassuring findings were the absence of weight loss and serious unwanted effects from d-fenfluramine.
(4) Organic investigation must be proposed to these patients when they are motivated and occasionally in obviously "psychological" patients in order to reassure him that all of the organic factors "function correctly".
(5) @HunterFelt October 28, 2013 Ali Mason (@alimason) Reassuring to see the #redsox aren't the only ones who can find stupid ways to lose.
(6) But the research drills down into the data to examine different cohorts separately, and discovers that reassuring overall averages are masking some striking variations.
(7) The implications for other professional divers and for recreational underwater divers who follow standard decompression protocols are reassuring.
(8) Educating them about the physiology of the human nervous system can provide them with reassurance.
(9) But Ed Miliband needs to reassure David and his team and recognise that their approach won almost half the votes."
(10) So if this amendment is selected, we’ll accept it.” But members of the official campaign to leave the EU, Vote Leave, said they were not reassured by the statement.
(11) Overall, the findings provide some welcome reassurance about the accuracy and reliability of pain reports from memory.
(12) This repeated analysis should reassure physicians that isoniazid chemoprophylaxis for tuberculin skin test reactors is beneficial to the individual and consonant with public health policies.
(13) These results should be reassuring to patients exposed to 131I in medical practice and to most individuals exposed to the fall-out from the Chernobyl accident.
(14) But it wasn't O'Neal who requested the article's suppression; according to Google's UK head of communications, Peter Barron, it was "an ordinary member of the public who left a comment on Robert's blog" and he reassured us that "If you search for Merrill Lynch [the blog] will appear.
(15) In conclusion, the results of this study, the major interest of which lies in the opportunity of drawing up an overall pattern of risk for various digestive neoplasms, offer further reassurance as regards the effects of coffee on digestive tract carcinogenesis.
(16) Also, fetal echocardiography provided reassurance of cardiac normality in cases with familial and maternal risk factors for congenital heart disease.
(17) Younger children may worry about genital mutilation, and should be reassured.
(18) Based on reassuring monocyte monolayer assay results, the pregnancy was followed without invasive testing.
(19) Pope is at once sympathetic and terrifying, and it's a measure of Washington's performance that she has to reassure me she's nothing like Pope in real life.
(20) Hollington was named an hour after the MoD announced the death of another marine, killed in an explosion in Sangin yesterday while on a "reassurance patrol".