Awestrike

Quick meaning: Awestrike is a verb meaning (transitive, now rare) To strike (someone) with awe; to make (someone) awestruck.

Meaning

(transitive, now rare) To strike (someone) with awe; to make (someone) awestruck.

Example Sentences

Ceremony is a scarecrow to awe-strike fools.

Behold the God himself, whose dreadful brow Awe-strikes the soul to speechless homage!

The idea of these “ladies” at first annoyed him; but the humble habitation which they had chosen—humble to poverty—impressed him with the belief that, however the “ladies” might awe-strike the Welsh peasantry, he should find in them nothing that would impress him with the idea of station.

Word Forms

• awestrikes
• awestriking
• awestruck
• awestricken

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include thunderstrike, overstrike, strike, poleaxe, strike out, outstrike.

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