(v. t.) To awe exceedingly; to subjugate or restrain by awe or great fear.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is a real stunned silence in that room, people are overawed."
(2) "It looked like we were overawed and I don't know why," he said.
(3) Continued to fight but was starved of the ball once City scored Ki Sung-yueng 6 Retained possession well in the first half and kept things ticking along for Sunderland although, as the game progressed, became slightly overawed in midfield Sebastian Larsson 6 Scurried around for the hour that he was on the pitch.
(4) "People feel overawed by the internet and what they turn up when they are searching," said Highfield.
(5) "We have been overawed by the amount of support and practical help from people in Bristol - and especially her close friends Emma and Becky.
(6) It wasn’t just that she was overawed by the spectacle, although she was: stuff I took for granted – lasers, pyrotechnics, confetti cannons, all the usual bells and whistles of a big pop show – were a constant source of overwhelming sensory overload.
(7) Maybe he was overawed by playing alongside Iago Aspas.
(8) Lord Dyson, the Master of the Rolls, has described to the justice select committee how unrepresented litigants often “dry up” and become overawed by court procedures, failing to present their claims adequately.
(9) The first album I'd ever bought was Ziggy Stardust and I owned all his others, so it was overawing, but he was really generous as a performer.
(10) While some teenagers may feel overawed at such an incredible trajectory of progress, Okoye takes it in his stride.
(11) Their fairly comfortable (we'll get to Michael Gspurning…) victory over a rather overawed Colorado Rapids sees them coming into tonight's game hoping that the playoffs are something of a fresh start.
(12) Never overawed 7 Andros Townsend Direct and eager in possession to test Azpilicueta, plenty of urgency down the flank, although unable to conjure a telling delivery 6 Christian Eriksen Belted an early free-kick on to the bar to promise much but, thereafter, was otherwise peripheral where Spurs needed him to be integral 5 Nacer Chadli Should offer so much more given his physique but he air-kicked at his best opportunity and only offered occasional flashes of his quality 5 Harry Kane Dropped deep to inspire two early chances, dribbling at panicked opponents, but denied a goal by Terry’s fine block 6
(13) From "the ritual of the hunt; the pomp of assizes (and all the theatrical power of the law courts); the segregated pews, the late entries and early departures at church" to the splendour of their wealth and hauteur of bearing and expression – all was a performance calculated to overawe the vulgar and extract deference.
(14) On Sunday, we will have a pre-game training session and on Monday we will have our normal preparation for a normal game.” Middlesbrough are not likely to be overawed by the occasion: this season, they were outstanding in beating Manchester City 2-0 at the Etihad in the FA Cup, and were unlucky to go out of the Capital One Cup to Liverpool 14-13 on penalties after a pulsating 2-2 draw at Anfield.
(15) US Open 2015: Johanna Konta ready for tough encounter with Andrea Petkovic Read more With her long black socks, tattooed arms and orange dyed hair, Mattek-Sands appeared a player not overawed by the spotlight and she exploded out of the blocks under the lights of Arthur Ashe.
(16) It was all too much for an overawed Kernodle, who never turned up, but the remaining three delivered a sparse, vibrant rendition of a brand new Cash song, Hey Porter.
(17) My theory is that people who come into Downing Street are quite often overawed by being here.
(18) Yet Bilic is counting on his players to rise to the occasion, rather than be overawed by it.
(19) Initially, the Welsh team seemed to find it hard to play to John Charles, almost as if they were overawed.
(20) "The height and breadth of them is breathtaking and you really do feel overawed when you're standing beneath them."
Subdue
Definition:
(v. t.) To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish.
(v. t.) To overpower so as to disable from further resistance; to crush.
(v. t.) To destroy the force of; to overcome; as, medicines subdue a fever.
(v. t.) To render submissive; to bring under command; to reduce to mildness or obedience; to tame; as, to subdue a stubborn child; to subdue the temper or passions.
(v. t.) To overcome, as by persuasion or other mild means; as, to subdue opposition by argument or entreaties.
(v. t.) To reduce to tenderness; to melt; to soften; as, to subdue ferocity by tears.
(v. t.) To make mellow; to break, as land; also, to destroy, as weeds.
(v. t.) To reduce the intensity or degree of; to tone down; to soften; as, to subdue the brilliancy of colors.
Example Sentences:
(1) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
(2) Hopes that the Queen's diamond jubilee and the £9bn spent on the Olympics would lift sales over the longer term have largely been dashed as growth slows and the outlook, though robust with a growing order book, remains subdued.
(3) The director general of the CML, Paul Smee, said: "January is always a subdued month in the mortgage market but the underlying trend and strong year-on-year growth across all borrower groups indicates a strong start to 2014 continuing the sort of lending levels seen throughout 2013.
(4) England had started with some well-executed set piece moves, a triangular formation in midfield initially foxing Australia, but it was the Wallabies’ ability to react in open play that marked them out: Foley’s first try, after Israel Folau, otherwise subdued on the night, ran through Robshaw, came after he noticed Ben Youngs had drifted too wide and cut inside the scrum-half and Joe Launchbury before wrongfooting Brown.
(5) An investigation by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem concluded that while she did have a knife under her niqab veil she posed no threat to soldiers at the time she was shot and could have been subdued without being fatally wounded.
(6) In these cases, the woman’s wardrobe must feature subdued tones.
(7) Releasing its quarterly inflation report, the Bank's monetary policy committee admitted that the UK recession was deeper than previously thought and that inflation would stay very subdued for a long time – a signal that interest rates will not rise in the short term.
(8) He does not have the ingenuity of Diego Maradona or the lawless wit of Luis Suárez, so does not cast spells over opponents, but he has shown that he can certainly help subdue them and uplift his team.
(9) The company blamed the decline in performance on a challenging trading and competitive environment, ongoing subdued consumer sentiment and economic uncertainty, the effect of strong market capacity growth and an unrecovered $27m cost of the carbon tax.
(10) And we are hopeful that a recovery in productivity will keep firms' cost pressures subdued," its economists said in a research note.
(11) "However, one area of the market which is subdued is remortgaging – all the more surprising when you consider the excellent rates available and the threat of an interest rate rise.
(12) Examples included officers punching and using pepper spray on people who have already been subdued, including after they have been handcuffed and at times “as punishment for the person’s earlier verbal or physical resistance”.
(13) In the Alevi association, in this subdued but defiant campaign, Demirtaş looked past the cameras, his gaze static and distant, and seemed not to be there.
(14) Believing the suspect’s magazine was empty, he chased the gunman in hopes of subduing him.
(15) No, Mourinho always wants to win but the priority was certainly to hold the fort – and there is no better team in England when it comes to subduing high-calibre opponents.
(16) Forming a coalition will be challenging, while operational considerations must not be subordinate to political ones, Emile Hokayem of the International Institute for Strategic Studies told the Guardian: "A coalition in which sectarian Iraqi Shia militias play a key role because these are Baghdad's only or most reliable troops, or in which Kurdish fighters are asked to operate far from their territories, could antagonise the very constituency whose support against Isis is fundamental: the various local Sunni communities who have accommodated or been subdued by Isis."
(17) The crowd was initially subdued, having just seen Murray crash out and there were plenty of empty seats when the match began.
(18) It had begun as a subdued explosion, really, in the early 1960s, when a new generation of bohemians began to adapt and mutate the culture of the 'Beats' - Jack Kerouac et al - which had installed itself on North Beach during the late 1950s.
(19) A subdued Rosberg was in his shoulder-shrugging mood.
(20) The results indicate that the extent of DNA degradation to acid-soluble nucleotides is highest in chromatin at the early stages of gonad growth, being drastically subdued in the mature sperm cell.