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subduedadjective not excessively showythe wedding was a subdued affair, with only close family and friends attending conservative, low-key(also low-keyed), muted, quiet, repressed, restrained, sober, toned-down, understated, unflashy, unpretentious appropriate, becoming, fit, fitting, proper, suitablemodest, plain, simple, unadorned, undecoratedinconspicuous, unnoticeable, unobtrusivegraceful, handsome, refined, tastefuldrab, mousy(or mousey)practical, sensible flamboyant, flaring, flashy, garish, gaudy, glitzy, loud, noisy, ostentatious, razzle-dazzle, splashy, swank(or swanky) meretriciousgraceless, inelegant, tacky, tasteless, tawdry, trashy, vulgarbaroque, fancy, frilly, gilded(or gilt), ornate, rococooverdecorated, overdone, overwrought subduedverbpast tense of subdueto achieve a victory oversubdued her fear of the dark by joining a club for spelunkers beat, bested, conquered, defeated, did down(British), dispatched, got, got around, licked, mastered, overbore, overcame, overmatched, prevailed (over), skunked, stopped, surmounted, took, trimmed, triumphed (over), upended, won (against), worsted sweptedged (out), nosed out, pipped(British)annihilated, blew away, blew out, bombed, broke, buried, clobbered, creamed, crushed, drubbed, finished, flattened, overwhelmed, routed, shellacked, skinned, slaughtered, smoked(slang), snowed under, thrashed, trounced, upset, walloped, waxed(slang), whippedcapped, excelled, flourished, scored, succeededknocked off, knocked over, overpowered, overthrew, subjugated, unseated, vanquishedaced (out), bettered, eclipsed, exceeded, excelled, outdid, outdistanced, outfought, outshone(or outshined), outstripped, overtopped, surpassed, topped, transcended got the better of, knocked for a loop lost (to) fell, gave up, went down, went undercollapsed, failed, flopped, flunked, folded, washed out to bring under one's control by force of armssubdued the rebels and sent their leaders to the gallows conquered, dominated, overpowered, pacified, subjected, subjugated, subordinated, vanquished annihilated, beat, clobbered, crushed, defeated, drubbed, licked, mowed (down), overcame, prevailed (over), reduced, routed, skunked, smashed, thrashed, triumphed (over), trounced, walloped, whippedenslavedbroke, clamped down (on), cracked down (on), put down, quashed, quelled, repressed, silenced, smothered, snuffed (out), squashed, squelched, suppressed discharged, emancipated, enfranchised, freed, liberated, manumitted, released, sprang(or sprung), unbound, uncaged, unchained, unfettered to put a stop to (something) by the use of forcelabored through the night to subdue the river's rising waters by building a wall of sandbags around their property clamped down (on), cracked down (on), crushed, put down, quashed, quelled, repressed, silenced, slapped down, snuffed (out), squashed, squelched, suppressed doused(also dowsed), extinguished, put out, quenchedsmothered, stifled, strangled, throttledannihilated, decimated, demolished, desolated, destroyed, devastated, nuked, rubbed out, ruined, smashed, wasted, wreckedexterminated, obliterated, wiped outconquered, dominated, overcame, overpowered, overwhelmed, subjugated, vanquished sat on abetted, aided, assisted, backed, helped, propped up, supportedfomented, incited, instigated, provoked, stirred, whipped (up)advanced, cultivated, encouraged, forwarded, fostered, furthered, nourished, nurtured, promoted in 1785 |