Definition of awful

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Awful (a.) Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken.

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Awful :: Awful (a.) Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken.
Awful :: Awful (a.) Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
Escape :: Escape (n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody..
Wife :: Wife (n.) The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a man in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married woman; -- correlative of husband.
Marketable :: Marketable (a.) Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacaye/ provisions are not marketable..
Wrawful :: Wrawful (a.) Ill-tempered.
Surrender :: Surrender (n.) The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail.
Misfeasance :: Misfeasance (n.) A trespass; a wrong done; the improper doing of an act which a person might lawfully do.
Illegal :: Illegal (a.) Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love..
Seditious :: Seditious (a.) Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to lawful authority; turbulent; factious; guilty of sedition; as, seditious citizens..
Dreadful :: Dreadful (a.) Inspiring awe or reverence; awful.
Awful :: Awful (a.) Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster..
Piracy :: Piracy (n.) Robbery on the high seas; the taking of property from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a crime answering to robbery on land..
Poach :: Poach (v. i.) To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon..
Murder :: Murder (n.) To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n..
Disseizee :: Disseizee (n.) A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor..
Token :: Token (n.) A piece of metal intended for currency, and issued by a private party, usually bearing the name of the issuer, and redeemable in lawful money. Also, a coin issued by government, esp. when its use as lawful money is limited and its intrinsic value is much below its nominal value..
Usure :: Usure (v. i.) To practice usury; to charge unlawful interest.
Wrong :: Wrong (a.) Nonconformity or disobedience to lawful authority, divine or human; deviation from duty; -- the opposite of moral right..
Illegalize :: Illegalize (v. t.) To make or declare illegal or unlawful.
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