"awing" in the verb sense
1. awe
inspire awe in
"The famous professor awed the undergraduates"
"awing" in the adjective sense
1. amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing
inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
"New York is an amazing city"
"the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"
"the awesome complexity of the universe"
"this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville
"Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"
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