Reverse Dictionary: SUBDUE

ADJECTIVES
► CASTIGATE subdued, chastened, moderated → 1640 obs.
► DAUNTED tamed, subdued, brought under control → 1375 obs.
► DOWNBEAT gloomy, subdued, pessimistic → 1952 Amer. sl.
► FEATHER-FALLEN crest-fallen, cast down in confidence, spirits, or courage; dispirited, disheartened, dejected; subdued in demeanour → 19C Eng. dial.
► MUSHED subdued, dispirited, crushed → 1861 obs.
► QUAMPED subdued, disappointed → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SORDINE muffled, subdued → 1894
► SUBACT subdued, reduced; brought under control or discipline → 1432 obs.
► SUBJUGABLE that may be subdued or brought under cultivation → 1886 

NOUNS
► CASTIGATION correction, subduing, moderating → 1677 obs.
► SUBACTION subjection, subdual → 1656 obs.

NOUNS, PERSON
► DAUNTER a subduer; a vanquisher → 1513 obs.
► DEBELLATOR a subduer, a vanquisher, a victor, a conqueror → 1713 obs.
► TAMER a conqueror; a subduer → 1848 (Bk.)

VERBS
► ADAUNT to quell, to subdue, to suppress, to reduce to submission → 1297 obs.
► ADAW to subdue, to daunt → 1557 obs.
► AFAITE to reduce, to subdue → 1297 obs.
► AWELD to overcome, to subdue, to defeat someone or something → 1175 obs.
► BANDON to have under control, to subdue → 1450 obs.
► BREAK ONE’S GALL to break the spirit, to cow, to subdue → 1460 obs.
► BRING TO THE GROUND to cast down, to overthrow, to overcome, to subdue → 1200 obs.
► CROMB ► CROME to catch or kill something by hitting it with a stick or implement; to overpower, to subdue → 1922 Amer. dial.
► DANTON ► DAUNTON to subdue, to overcome, to vanquish; to tame; to intimidate → 1535 Sc.
► DAUNT to bring into subjection, to subdue, to tame; to hold in subjection; to control → 1303 obs.
► DAW to daunt, to subdue, to frighten → 1616 obs.
► DEBELL to put down in fight, to subdue, to vanquish, to conquer, to overcome; to expel by force of arms → 1555 obs.
► DEBELLATE to overcome in war; to conquer, subdue, vanquish → 1611 obs.
► DING to overcome, to subdue; to excel, to surpass → 1795 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DOWNTREAD to suppress or subdue; to oppress by tyranny → 1536 chiefly literary usage
► I-WELDE to overcome, to subdue someone or something → 1000 obs.
► LAY FULL LOW to destroy, to overthrow, to kill; to defeat, to subdue, to suppress → 1425
► MATE to overcome, to defeat, to subdue → 1225 obs.
► ONWALD to bring under one’s power or rule; to subdue → 1205 obs.
► OPPRESS to put down, to suppress; to crush, to quell, to subdue, to overwhelm a person; to check or put and end to a thing or state of things, feeling, disposition, etc. → 1340 obs.
► PEACIFY to make calm, to pacify; to soothe, quiet, or subdue → 1886 
► QUAIL ► QUILE to quell; to subdue through fear → 1791 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► QUAMP ► QUOMP to subdue, to cow, to quiet; to damp one’s spirits → 1870 Eng. dial.
► QUANK to overcome, to subdue; to quiet → 1825 Eng. dial.
► QUAY to depress, to subdue, to daunt → 1590 obs.
► REDD to quell, to subdue a fray; to compose a quarrel; to separate combatants → 1766 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SETTLE A PERSON’S HASH to reduce to order; to silence, to subdue; to make an end of → 1825 colloq.
► SUBACT to subdue; to bring into subjection → 1645 obs.
► SUBPEDITATE to subdue → 1538 
► TAKE IN to capture, to subdue → 1792 Sc.
► VASSAL to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subdue → 1612 
► VASSALIZE to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subdue → 1641 
► VENCUE to vanquish, to subdue → 1300 obs.
► VENQUE to vanquish, to subdue → 1402 obs.