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/ɔːd/
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ɔːd
Adjective
Filled with awe.
Having or showing awe.
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Even now my heart faints before the recollection of it, as she stood and smiled at our awed faces, and I would give half my remaining time upon this earth to see her once like that again.
Adjective
inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence
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awed by the silence
awful worshippers with bowed heads
having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread
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stood in awed silence before the shrine
in grim despair and awestruck wonder