Word Study
awing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective awing has 1 sense
- awing(s = adj.all) amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful - 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"; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"
CIDE DICTIONARY
awing, adv. [Pref. a- + wing.].
On the wing; flying; fluttering. Wallace. [1913 Webster]
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