awestruck

Meanings

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   adj

   filled with overwhelming wonder, admiration, reverence, or fear

   The sailors spoke in an awestruck whisper about the figure they had seen on deck.

Formed from awe + struck, the past participle of strike. It models the feeling as a force that strikes or overwhelms a person, preserving awe's older mixture of wonder, reverence, and fear.

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