Subdue

Quick meaning: Subdue is a verb meaning (transitive) To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.

Meaning

(transitive) To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To bring (a country) under control by force.

Example Sentences

And when their ſcattered armie is ſubdu’d: And you march on their ſlaughtered carkaſſes, Share equally the gold that bought their liues, And liue like Gentlmen in Perſea, […]

“It's like the opposite of punk, isn't it?” he said jokingly in 2016 while discussing his influence on other musicians. “I've subdued a generation.” But [James] Blake is not so quiescent after all.

Gary Cahill, a target for Arsenal and Tottenham before the transfer window closed, put England ahead early on and Rooney was on target twice before the interval as the early hostility of the Bulgarian supporters was swiftly subdued.

In the run-up to his return to the White House next Monday, Mr. Trump has rattled the world, and America’s neighborhood in particular, with a list of objectives – buying Greenland, seizing the Panama Canal, making Canada the 51st state – that treat friendly nations as weak interlocutors and impediments to be subdued.

Word Forms

• subdues
• subduing
• subdued

Synonyms for subdue

Depending on context, synonyms include restrain, stifle, underbring, behedge, guard, govern.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inhibit, repress, suppress, conquer, quash, reduce.

Related Dictionary Tools