Adaw
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /əˈdɔː/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Adaw is a verb meaning (obsolete, transitive) To daunt, overcome, subdue.
Meaning
(obsolete, transitive) To daunt, overcome, subdue.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) To awaken, arouse.
Example Sentences
But friezing colde adawes the frying heate[…]
To arrive to knowledge is to have an itinerary, a passage out of dreaming, to adaw, to be awake (délit).
They perceiving, and being adawed at his constancy and resolution, took the advantage of a darke night, and fled every man of them, by that way out of the rock.
He, comming home at undertime, there found / The fayrest creature, that he euer saw, / Sitting beside his mother on the ground; / The sight whereof did greatly him adaw.
Word Forms
- adaws
- adawing
- adawed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dare, daunt, danton, appall, amay, faze.
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