Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to overawe
Participle: overawed
Gerund: overawing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | overawe |
| you | overawe |
| he;she;it | overawes |
| we | overawe |
| you | overawe |
| they | overawe |
Perfect
| I | have overawed |
| you | have overawed |
| he;she;it | has overawed |
| we | have overawed |
| you | have overawed |
| they | have overawed |
Past
| I | overawed |
| you | overawed |
| he;she;it | overawed |
| we | overawed |
| you | overawed |
| they | overawed |
Pluperfect
| I | had overawed |
| you | had overawed |
| he;she;it | had overawed |
| we | had overawed |
| you | had overawed |
| they | had overawed |
Future
| I | will overawe |
| you | will overawe |
| he;she;it | will overawe |
| we | will overawe |
| you | will overawe |
| they | will overawe |
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 |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | overawe |
| you | overawe |
| he;she;it | overawe |
| we | overawe |
| you | overawe |
| they | overawe |
Perfect
| I | have overawed |
| you | have overawed |
| he;she;it | have overawed |
| we | have overawed |
| you | have overawed |
| they | have overawed |
Imperfect
| I | overawed |
| you | overawed |
| he;she;it | overawed |
| we | overawed |
| you | overawed |
| they | overawed |
Pluperfect
| I | had overawed |
| you | had overawed |
| he;she;it | had overawed |
| we | had overawed |
| you | had overawed |
| they | had overawed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would overawe |
| you | would overawe |
| he;she;it | would overawe |
| we | would overawe |
| you | would overawe |
| they | would overawe |
Perfect
| I | would have overawed |
| you | would have overawed |
| he;she;it | would have overawed |
| we | would have overawed |
| you | would have overawed |
| they | would have overawed |
Imperative
| you | overawe |
| we | Let's overawe |
| you | overawe |
Verbs conjugated like 'overawe'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'overawe'
over-awe,
overage,
average,
onerate,
operate,
overact,
overamp,
overarm,
overbake,
overcare,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *úp
3. Proto-Indo-European *-er
4. Proto-Indo-European *upér
5. Proto-Germanic *uber
6. Old English ofer-
7. Middle English over-
8. English over-
9. French auvebor.
10. English awe
11. English overawe
12. From over- + awe.
Sample Sentences
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None doe you like, but an effeminate Prince, Whom like a Schoole-boy you may ouer-awe. [1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]
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His free and easy carriage evinced, that though acknowledging my assumptions, he was no way overawed by them; treating me as familiarly, indeed, as if I were a mere mortal, one of the abject generation of mushrooms. [1849, Herman Melville, “ch. 57”, in Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, volume I:]
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He kept the biggest estates, and where he lacked troops to overawe the natives he evicted the natives and made a game reserve. [2000, Alasdair Gray, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 61:]