Subdue can be categorized as a verb.
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| subdue - to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires" | ||
| subdue - 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" | ||
| subdue - hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh" | ||
| subdue - make subordinate, dependent, or subservient; "Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler" | ||
| subdue - get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness" | ||
| subdue - correct by punishment or discipline |
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| 1. | verb | Subdue one's appetites. | |
| 2. | verb | Kalkat, who currently chairs the independent US-based International Council on Conflict Resolution, said despite the failure of the Indian army to disarm or even subdue the Tigers, India remained the only power capable of influencing the course of the current peace talks. | |
| 3. | verb | We cannot subdue nature. | |
| 4. | verb | There is, perhaps, not one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as vanity. | |
| 5. | verb | I could not subdue the desire to laugh. | |
| 6. | verb | For, in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery: but in fact, eleven men well armed will certainly subdue one single man in his shirt. | |
| 7. | verb | The policemen caught up with Dan and managed to subdue him. | |
| 8. | verb | Dan tried to attack the psychiatrist, but the orderlies managed to subdue him and sedate him. | |
| 9. | verb | Police used rubber bullets to subdue the rioters. | |
| 10. | verb | Not the feelings which Ravenswood had begun to entertain towards Lucy Ashton, not the hospitality due to his guests, were able entirely to subdue, though they warmly combated, the deep passions which arose within him at beholding his father's foe standing in the hall of the family of which he had in a great measure accelerated the ruin. | |
| 11. | verb | And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth. | |
| 12. | verb | There are no clear signs that warmer conditions will subdue or stop the virus. | |
| 13. | verb | The police used tear gas to subdue the protestors. |
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| Subdue one's appetites. |
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| Kalkat, who currently chairs the independent US-based International Council on Conflict Resolution, said despite the failure of the Indian army to disarm or even subdue the Tigers, India remained the only power capable of influencing the course of the current peace talks. |
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| We cannot subdue nature. | |
| There is, perhaps, not one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as vanity. | |
| I could not subdue the desire to laugh. | |
| For, in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery: but in fact, eleven men well armed will certainly subdue one single man in his shirt. | |
| The policemen caught up with Dan and managed to subdue him. | |
| Dan tried to attack the psychiatrist, but the orderlies managed to subdue him and sedate him. | |
| Police used rubber bullets to subdue the rioters. | |
| Not the feelings which Ravenswood had begun to entertain towards Lucy Ashton, not the hospitality due to his guests, were able entirely to subdue, though they warmly combated, the deep passions which arose within him at beholding his father's foe standing in the hall of the family of which he had in a great measure accelerated the ruin. | |
| And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth. | |
| There are no clear signs that warmer conditions will subdue or stop the virus. | |
| The police used tear gas to subdue the protestors. | |