What does subdue mean?
Subdue means (transitive) To overcome, quieten, or bring under control..
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/səbˈdu/ · verb
(transitive) To overcome, quieten, or bring under control..
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, […]
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.
“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.
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.
Use subdue when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Subdue means (transitive) To overcome, quieten, or bring under control..
Common synonyms include restrain, stifle, underbring, behedge.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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, […]
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