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SUBDUED definition: 1. If a colour or light is subdued, it is not very bright: 2. If a noise is subdued, it is not…. Learn more.
The meaning of SUBDUED is lacking in vitality, intensity, or strength. How to use subdued in a sentence.
Add to word list. to reduce the force of something, or to prevent something from existing or developing: The fire burned for eight hours before the fire crews could subdue it. He criticized the school for trying to subdue individual expression. to bring a person or group under control by using force:
The fire burned for eight hours before the fire crews could subdue it. He criticized the school for trying to subdue individual expression. to bring a person or group under control by using force: Police say they have a range of methods available to them to subdue a person during a confrontation.
adjective. quiet; inhibited; repressed; controlled: After the argument he was much more subdued. lowered in intensity or strength; reduced in fullness of tone, as a color or voice; muted: subdued light; wallpaper in subdued greens.
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English so (b)duen, so (b)dewen, from unattested Anglo-French soduer “to overcome,” from Old French soduire “to deceive, seduce,” from Latin subdūcere “to withdraw”; meaning in English (and Anglo-French ) from Latin subdere “to place beneath, subdue”; subduct.
Definition of subdue verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
subdue something to calm or control your feelings synonym suppress Julia had to subdue an urge to stroke his hair. See subdue in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Check pronunciation: subdue. Definition of subdue verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary.
Subdue definition: To subjugate (a region or people, for example) by military force.
