overaweとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• over-awe

語源

From over- +‎ awe.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əʊvəˈɹɔː/
• (General American) IPA: /oʊvɚˈɔ/
• (cot–caught merger, 米国発音, dialects of Canada) IPA: /oʊvɚˈɑ/
• (Canada, dialects of the 米国発音) IPA: /oʊvɚˈɒ/
• (General Australian) IPA: /əʉvəˈɹoː/, /ɐʉvəˈɹoː/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ɐʉvəˈɹoː/
• 韻: -ɔː
• ハイフネーション: over‧awe

動詞

overawe (third-person singular simple present overawes, present participle overawing, simple past and past participle overawed)

1. (transitive) To restrain, subdue, or control by awe; to cow. [from 16th c.]
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     None doe you like, but an effeminate Prince, Whom like a Schoole-boy you may ouer-awe.

   • 1849, Herman Melville, “ch. 57”, in Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, volume I:

     His free and easy carriage evinced, that though acknowledging my assumptions, he was no way overawed by them; treating me as familiarly, indeed, as if I were a mere mortal, one of the abject generation of mushrooms.

   • 2000, Alasdair Gray, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 61:

     He kept the biggest estates, and where he lacked troops to overawe the natives he evicted the natives and made a game reserve.

反意語

• underwhelm