different between overawed vs thunderstruck

English

Verb

overawed

1. simple past tense and past participle of overawe

   One of the most depressing things about you, the people, says Daniel Hannan, is the way you're so overawed by experts. - Best articles: Britain: Our naive faith in non-political experts,The Week, 14 July 2007, 622, 14.

Anagrams

• reavowed

English

Etymology

thunder +? struck

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???n.d?.st??k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???n.d?.st??k/

Adjective

thunderstruck (comparative more thunderstruck, superlative most thunderstruck)

1. Astonished, amazed or so suddenly surprised as to be unable to speak.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 6, lines 856-858,^[1]

     The overthrown he rais’d, and as a Heard

     Of Goats or timerous flock together throngd

     Drove them before him Thunder-struck,

   • 1927-29 — Mohandas Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part V, The Fast, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai

     'Unless the strikers rally,' I declared to the meeting, 'and continue the strike till a settlement is reached, or till they leave the mills altogether, I will not touch any food.' The labourers were thunderstruck.

See also

• thunderstrike
• thunderstriking

Synonyms

• (astonished): amazed, astonished, astounded, awed, overawed, overwhelmed, speechless, stupefied, surprised

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