overawe

1. (transitive) To restrain, subdue, or control by awe; to cow.Examples: "None doe you like, but an effeminate Prince, Whom like a Schoole-boy you may ouer-awe."; "His free and easy carriage evinced, that though acknowledging my assumptions, he was no way overawed by them; treating me as familiarly, indeed, as if I were a mere mortal, one of the abject generation of mushrooms."; "He kept the biggest estates, and where he lacked troops to overawe the natives he evicted the natives and made a game reserve."transitive