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Meaning subdue meaning

What does subdue mean?

subdue

— verb (= suppress, stamp down, conquer) to put down by force or authority suppress a nascent uprising stamp down on littering conquer one's desires — verb (= quash, keep down, subjugate) put down by force or intimidation The government quashes any attempt of an uprising China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land — verb (= mortify) hold within limits and control subdue one's appetites mortify the flesh — verb (= subordinate) make subordinate, dependent, or subservient Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler — verb (= overcome) get on top of; deal with successfully He overcame his shyness — verb (= tame) correct by punishment or discipline

Synonyms subdue synonyms

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subdue English » English

conquer overcome subjugate defeat suppress repress vanquish tame restrain quell overpower control master destroy curb reduce soften check beat quash break surmount subordinate subject inhibit abase win oppress keep down crush coerce chasten bring into subjection weaken train take surrender stamp down put down mortify humiliate humble get over enslave discipline crucify chastise bend over assuage appease

Topics subdue topics

What do people use subdue to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict War

Defeat

Conjugation subdue conjugation

How do you conjugate subdue?

subdue · verb

Examples subdue examples

How do I use subdue in a sentence?

Simple sentences

We cannot subdue nature.
I could not subdue the desire to laugh.

Movie subtitles

By the time the fire crews arrive, the flames must be impossible to subdue.
We've got to subdue them.
Forgive me, Elsa, but I had to expose you to the soporific gas. in order to subdue the others.
And in their madness they have acquired a superhuman strength so that it took the power of many to subdue them.
Sometimes, it's harder for us to subdue our pride than to win a battle.
Wouldn't it be better for you to subdue your pride?
CAN THE COSMIC SUBSTANCE SUBDUE GUILALA?
They help you subdue Miller?
Quill asks you to stay away from his girl, you attack him. and his men had to use clubs in order to subdue you.
It is utter nonsense to talk about a free people's state. For a time, the proletariat needs the state, not in the interest of freedom, but in order to subdue its enemies.
I would love to subdue you, But I will not do it because we need you.
Gotho, Gotho, subdue him!
It is not easy to subdue you but I have some experience, and I am a bit older than you.
An army of Spock duplicates is necessary to subdue them.
They want to subdue the natives.
Mr Winthrop, three-quarters of my family have fallen into madness, and in their madness have acquired a superhuman strength, so that it took the power of many to subdue them.
It was an impulsive movement to gain time for thought, to make sure that my vision had not deceived me, to calm and subdue my fancy for a more sober and more certain gaze.
Can't you subdue a woman?
Montgomery utilized them at the beginning of the battle. to subdue the enemy.
Radical students and Buddhist activists are demonstrating in the streets while government troops battle desperately to subdue them.
According to the mighty working whereby He is able to subdue all things unto Himself.
We will never be able to subdue them again!
Now, sometimes in cases like this, when men subdue woman, hold them captive, the law is likely to consider the possibility of brainwashing.
If I come out of that tank anthropoid, I'll be in a very primitive state and impossible to relate to, so sedate me while I'm still in the tank otherwise you'll have to chase me around and subdue me.
Maybe they could even subdue him.
We are going to subdue a revolt by the monks of Hakusanji.
I can neither subdue their passions nor change their course.
Did you by indirect and forced courses subdue and poison this young maid's affections?
She told her while she kept it 'twould make her amiable and subdue my father entirely to her love.
As to me, since you saw me all naked in the temple, I'm consumed by a fever that I can't subdue.
Everything bears out our theory that this is the helmet which the Emperor Alexander the Great of Macedonia lost when he set out to subdue India.
As soon as the freighter impacts, a small force will follow through and subdue survivors.
Subdue the Maker.
I know it's terribly inconsiderate, but if I'm to subdue a revolution, I'd rather wear trousers.
Under no circumstances should you try to subdue him yourself.

News and current affairs

The Russians began pulling their 100,000 troops from Afghanistan in 1987, after nine years of fighting had failed to subdue the country.
Vietnamese deaths and casualties outnumbered American deaths and casualties by perhaps 20 to one, but the US still could not subdue the nationalist adversary that they faced.
Russia's attempts to subdue the Chechen insurrection are but another bloody chapter in a two hundred year colonial policy that began with Russia's subjugation of Caucasian mountain peoples in a cruel war that lasted for thirty years.
It could not even subdue Chechnya, a small republic within the Russian federation.
Israel's failure to subdue Hezbollah demonstrates the many weaknesses of the war-on-terror concept.
Their creativity and passion enabled them to subdue - and in some cases even destroy - less adaptable giants remarkably quickly.
Only by reinforcing open trading and financial relations across Europe can we hope to subdue today's crisis.

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