"awed" in the verb sense
1. awe
inspire awe in
"The famous professor awed the undergraduates"
"awed" in the adjective sense
1. awed, awful
inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence
"awed by the silence"
"awful worshippers with bowed heads"
2. awed, awestruck, awestricken
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"
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