英:['ɔ:strɪkən]
美:['ɔstrɪkən]
英:['ɔ:strɪkən]
美:['ɔstrɪkən]
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"
The first known use of awestruck was in 1637
awhirladjective
being in a whirl
awhileadverb
for a while : for a short time
sit and rest awhile
awful1 of 2adjective
awesome sense 2
extremely disagreeable or unpleasant
informal very great
an awful lot of money
awful2 of 2adverb
very entry 2 sense 1
awful tired
awful1 of 2adjective
awesome sense 2
extremely disagreeable or unpleasant
informal very great
an awful lot of money
awful2 of 2adverb
very entry 2 sense 1
awful tired
awestruckadjective
filled with awe
awestruckadjective
filled with awe
1 Mechanics and shop girls, going to their labor, recklessly postponed the duties of the day, and stopped to stare, awestricken, at the house.
2 Be careful," she cried in an awestricken voice; "there is a split, and you'll make it worse if you wriggle about so.
3 I was almost awestricken at the astuteness with which the good lady found herself inspired, transparent astuteness as it was and sewn, as the phrase is, with white thread.
4 "Was ye an officer—a navy officer, Thirkle?" he asked, somewhat awestricken at the idea.
5 "Heaven mercifully shield you from harm!" she then said, in an awestricken whisper.
6 It was a curious and a facetious crowd, but not awestricken, as it had been at the first manifestations of this freakish upset of natural forces.
7 "I’m not pleasantly surprised, but I’m awestricken by this group of people. They’re fighting with their own makeshift weapons," Kunis said.
8 So he goes away awestricken but unharmed, secretly believing that all chess-players are humbugs, and that intelligent chess, which is neither chancy nor rote-learned, is beyond the wit of man.
9 Theo turned away from the window with a sad, almost awestricken face.
10 Even my aunt was for a day or so measurably awestricken by this exploit in purchase, and we both went down with him to see the house in a mood near consternation.
11 The brother and sister looked at each other, but neither spoke the awestricken thought that was in both their hearts.
12 In the awestricken silence the voice of the driver rose in drawling protestation.
13 Dolly Fayre took it quietly and seemed almost awestricken, when at last she realised that she was in her bed to stay for several weeks.
14 A black newspaper reported that the students “sat awestricken during the address, which terminated without any applause.”
15 “He himself was rather awestricken by what had occurred,” remembered Gold, “greatly concerned by the terrible destruction which the weapon had wrought.”
16 Many of them, when later they heard of an incident that occurred within a very short time, felt almost awestricken for a moment.
17 As the awestricken eyes of the terrified child fell on the mass of stone and bronze the sight smote him breathless.
18 "I think he had something to do with the watches," said our guide, awestricken by our profound knowledge.
19 They were awestruck by the sheer size of the project.
20 Awestruck admiration showed on her face.