Usually means: Overcoming or bringing under control.
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  1. subduing: Merriam-Webster
  2. subduing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. subduing: Collins English Dictionary
  4. subduing: Vocabulary.com
  5. Subduing, subduing: Wordnik
  6. subduing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. subduing: Wiktionary
  8. subduing: Dictionary.com
  9. subduing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Subduing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Subduing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. subduing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. subduing: FreeDictionary.org
  14. subduing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subduing: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The act of something being subdued.

Similar:
tame, reduce, mortify, conquer, chasten, subjugate, repress, keep down, overcome, get over, more...

Opposite:
agitating, arousing, exciting, stimulating

Types:
restraining, calming, tranquilizing, sedating, subjugating, quelling, appeasing, overpowering, dominating, more...

Phrases:
Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms, more...

Adjectives:
barbarian, more, perfect, all, entire, utter, slow, daily, final, proud, controlling

Colors:
    muted gray,     dusty rose,     pale lavender,     gentle taupe,     misty blue, more...

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Similar:
tame, reduce, mortify, conquer, chasten, subjugate, repress, keep down, overcome, get over, more...

Opposite:
agitating, arousing, exciting, stimulating

Types:
restraining, calming, tranquilizing, sedating, subjugating, quelling, appeasing, overpowering, dominating, more...

Phrases:
Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms, more...

Adjectives:
barbarian, more, perfect, all, entire, utter, slow, daily, final, proud, controlling

Colors:
    muted gray,     dusty rose,     pale lavender,     gentle taupe,     misty blue, more...



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