cowed

• It also showed that Samir isn't a player to be easily cowed, which is also heartening. —  Goonerboy
• The costly enterprise met with but a single success: Naples was cowed, and the court promised neutrality, with reparation for the insult to the tricolor The Corsican expedition was quite as ill-starred as the French. —  The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
• The few French troops on shore were cowed, and dared not show themselves when a party landed from the ships. —  The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
• He will pretend to be cowed, and run away, and you will then abuse me in no measured terms for having left you without protector, in the first place, and for having behaved so badly to your dear Will in the second. —  Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow
• At last the bull was cowed--if we may venture to say so--and driven ignominiously into a corner of the field, where he vented his rage on the remnants of the umbrella, while the victors returned to the field of battle But what's come of MacRummle?" —  The Eagle Cliff

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