awing

Words with a similar base: awing

'awing'

[awe.v.01] as in: inspire awe in

Examples:
The famous professor awed the undergraduates

'awing'

[amazing.s.02] as in: inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; ; ; ; - Melville

Examples:
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
Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent

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					awing (English)
├── a- (English)
│   ├── a- (Anglo-Norman)
│   │   └── e- (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
│   │       └── ex- (Latin)
│   ├── a- (Middle English (1100-1500))
│   │   └── a- (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
│   ├── ab (Latin)
│   └── ἀ- (Ancient Greek (to 1453))
└── wing (English)
    └── vængr (Old Norse)

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