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Awestricken

Definition: Awestricken

Awestricken

Adjective

1. Having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread; "stood in awed silence before the shrine"; "in grim despair and awestruck wonder".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "awestricken" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references)


Synonyms: Awestricken

Synonyms: awed (adj), awestruck (adj), in awe of (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: unawed (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Awestricken

Language Translations for "awestricken"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

jatý posvátnou hrùzou. (various references)

   

German

  

von Ehrfurcht ergriffen (awestruck). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

awestrickenay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Awestricken

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-k-n-r-s-t-w"

-2 letters: ankerites, centiares, cisternae, crankiest, creakiest, creatines, iterances, nectaries.

-3 letters: ankerite, arenites, arsenite, canister, centares, centiare, ceratins, cineaste, cisterna, crankest, creatine, creatins, enticers, increase, increate, iterance, keratins, kernites, knitwear, neckties, neckwear, reascent, reenacts, resinate, rewakens, sarcenet, scantier, secretin, sickener, sneakier, stearine, stricken, swankier, sweatier, tacrines, tinwares, trainees, twankies, tweakier, wackiest, wakeners, wasterie, weariest.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-k-n-r-s-t-w"
 

+1 letter: kitchenwares.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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