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Stupefying
Answer for the clue "Stupefying ", 5 letters:
awing
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Word definitions for awing in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Awing \A*wing"\, adv. [Pref. a- + wing.] On the wing; flying; fluttering. --Wallace.
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Word definitions in WordNet
adj. 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; ...
Usage examples of awing.
Brian Boru had used it as his audience chamber as well as his banqueting hall, calculatedly awing visitors with an ostentatious display of gold cups and bejeweled goblets on every table in the room.
He had seen Ione, bright, pure, unsullied, in the midst of the gayest and most profligate gallants of Pompeii, charming rather than awing the boldest into respect, and changing the very nature of the most sensual and the least ideal—as by her intellectual and refining spells she reversed the fable of Circe, and converted the animals into men.