Definition of Awhape

1. v. t. To confound; to terrify; to amaze.

Definition of Awhape

1. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To confound; to terrify; to amaze. ¹

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Definition of Awhape

1. to confound [v AWHAPED, AWHAPING, AWHAPES] - See also: confound

Lexicographical Neighbors of Awhape

awesomesauce
awesomest
awesometastic
awestricken
awestruck
aweto
awetos
awful
awfulest
awfull
awfuller
awfullest
awfully
awfulness
awfulnesses
awhape (current term)
awhaped
awhapes
awhaping
awheel
awheels
awhile
awhirl
awing
awk
awkly
awkward
awkward squad
awkwarder
awkwardest

Literary usage of Awhape

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"... answered then the ape, Deeply do your lad words my wits awhape. The word is used by Chaucer. AWORK. On work ; into work. ..."

2. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1886)
"awhape, ». To confound ; to render stupid by fear. ... And eke in stature higher by a span, All over-grown with huir that could awhape An hardy heart. ..."

3. The Plays and Poems of Cyril Tourneur by Cyril Tourneur, John Churton Collins (1878)
"I And Spenser : To awhape is to terrify or '' Deeply do your sad words my wits awhape," | quoted by Nares. Eeth. For eald—young age, so youth ; though the ..."

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