Definitions for awes

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IPA: /ɔ/

Awes is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in awes (aesw).

Definitions for awes

noun

  1. an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, or the like:
  2. Archaic. power to inspire fear or reverence.
  3. Obsolete. fear or dread.

verb (used with object)

  1. to inspire with awe.
  2. to influence or restrain by awe.

Origin of awes

1250-1300; Middle English aghe, awe Scandinavian; compare Old Norse agi fear, cognate with Gothic agis, Old English ege, Greek áchos pain

Examples for awes

Is it, thought I, the shadow of a sinister catastrophe that already projects over and awes, appalls him?

Blake on the wing has a strange beauty, a swift, direct and strenuous flight that thrills and awes the imaginative spectator.

Then comes the dark cell, an experience which awes the boldest.

It may have been but a broken column, a lonely pool with a star-beam on its quiet surface,—yet it awes us.

The beauty and boldness of the scenery on either side alternately enchants and awes.

But the sight, though it awes us, does not depress us or deter us.

The majesty of Night is so contagious, it awes, it inspires.

Hence, while the one pleases, the other awes and subdues us.

There is ever something in courage and in will that awes numbers, though brave themselves.

Surely it can't be merely his habit;——there's something in him that awes me.

Word Value for awes
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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