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Awestruck   /ˈɑstrˌək/   Listen
Awestruck

adjective
1.
Having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread.  Synonyms: awed, awestricken.  "In grim despair and awestruck wonder"  Antonym: unawed.






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"Awestruck" Quotes from Famous Books



... raised his awestruck face from his father's quick-beating heart, and standing among the strangers and the neighbors, told the story,—all that he knew; all that ...
— A Lost Hero • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward and Herbert D. Ward

... Awestruck, he looked down at it for a long time. He recognized the workmanship, having seen a dozen such in the museum in the park. He knelt by it and ran a reverent hand over its painted surface. In many colours were birds and beasts, and men in profile, and queer ...
— Bunker Bean • Harry Leon Wilson

... sank back in his chair and regarded him with awestruck attention; Captain Bowers, slowly ramming home a charge of tobacco ...
— Dialstone Lane, Complete • W.W. Jacobs

... a few stragglers came in sight, then more, and then by degrees a great dark crowd of awestruck people were collected together and stood afar off, fearing to come near, lest the ruins should still continue falling. Presently the door of the hospital opened and a party of men in gray blouses, headed by ...
— Sant' Ilario • F. Marion Crawford

... green curtains hung from a bar within. Laurie took these, and ran them to and fro; then he went into the cabinet. It was entirely empty except for a single board that formed the seat. As he came out he encountered the awestruck face of the clergyman who had followed him in dead silence, and now went into the cabinet after him. Laurie passed round behind: the little room was empty except for the piano at the back, and two low bookshelves on either ...
— The Necromancers • Robert Hugh Benson


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