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单词 subdue
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Definition of subdue in English:

subdue

verbsubduing, subdued, subdues səbˈdjuːsəbˈd(j)u
[with object]
  • 1Overcome, quieten, or bring under control (a feeling or person)

    she managed to subdue an instinct to applaud
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Blair passed over his best chance to subdue his friend and rival by moving him to the Foreign Office in the wake of the last election landslide.
    • So, they throw like girls, which implies weakness, yet they were vicious attackers who needed to be subdued with significant force?
    • This explains why the pro-hunt protesters were subdued not by policemen, but by a group of men in frock coats who looked like they belonged to John Cleese's Ministry of Silly Walks.
    • You can hear him subdue an audience that he himself has aroused.
    • That they did, but with such a heavy hand that the narcotic gas used to subdue the terrorists also accounted for over 100 hostages.
    • Underdevelopment is the process by which capitalist forces expand to subdue and impoverish the Third World.
    • The pair managed to subdue a man who was holding his ex-partner at knifepoint in front of their seven-year-old son.
    • Some of them want to flaunt affluence in all sorts of ways while others subdue their inclination to spend or buy property.
    • During the training, she learnt to deliver several punches and elbow blows so quickly they would subdue an aggressor before he knew what hit him.
    • According to sacred lore, most of Bhutan's gods were subdued by early Buddhist saints.
    • It subdues their emotional force by assigning rational meaning to them, however irrational or incomprehensible the impressions might originally have been.
    • We cannot let them succeed, for, as Benjamin Franklin put it, ‘Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.’
    • That defeat, time and again, cannot subdue some men is not merely amazing, it is moving.
    • Roles include trying to subdue psychotic children, breaking up fights in the school yard and general administrative duties.
    • Jag Johal and police service dog Stryker helped subdue the suspects and both were arrested.
    • Breathing deeply, I tried to subdue the gnawing feeling deep in my stomach.
    • In Germany, two robbers chose an unique method of subduing their victim when they left a taxi driver glued to his steering wheel and escaped with 300 euros.
    • The Secret Service responded, dousing the fire and subduing the man.
    • Inherent in these excerpts are not only the self-exculpatory motives but also the persuasive elements of domination deliberately subduing the coercive aspects of an unequal relationship.
    • West Midlands police used a non-lethal Taser stun gun to subdue one of the bombing suspects captured last week.
    Synonyms
    conquer, defeat, vanquish, get the better of, overpower, overcome, overwhelm, crush, quash, quell, beat, trounce, subjugate, master, suppress, gain the upper hand over, triumph over, tame, bring someone to their knees, hold in check, humble, chasten, cow
    informal lick, thrash, wipe the floor with, clobber, demolish, hammer, make mincemeat of, walk all over
    curb, restrain, hold back, constrain, contain, inhibit, repress, suppress, stifle, smother, check, keep in check, arrest, bridle, rein in
    control, govern, master, quash, quell
    moderate, tone down, diminish, lessen, damp
    informal lick, nip in the bud, keep a/the lid on
    1. 1.1 Bring (a country or people) under control by force.
      Charles went on a campaign to subdue the Saxons
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The settler population and government forces used extreme levels of violence to subdue the native Mexicans.
      • Through force of arms it had subdued the surrounding lands, though they had treated the inhabitants fairly.
      • Under this pressure, the last shogun resigned, and imperial troops easily subdued such Tokugawa forces as resisted.
      • But the legions were forced to return several times to subdue them and Caesar finally lost patience, so he cut off one hand of every soldier.
      • During the war itself, a larger invading force might have subdued his areas of support before they had time to organize.
      • They were a thorn in the side of the occupying Roman forces, who had to subdue these hostile natives if they were to establish, safely, the new capital of Londinium.
      • The British air force went in and subdued his own tribal allies.
      • North Ossetia lies to the west of the seething Chechnya region where Russian forces have been trying to subdue separatists for a decade.
      • In some cases, security meant subduing forces inimical to that government.
      • His desire to realize Henry VIII's plan to subdue French influence in Scotland and achieve the union of the Crowns became an obsession.
      • He subdues the nations through bearing witness to the truth, suffering and offering his own life.
      • The main aim of the wars of new generation is to subdue other countries.
      • But the failure to subdue the insurgencies in both countries has produced differences over how to proceed.
      • He began to assert his authority from about 1045, calling upon his feudal lord King Henri I of France to assist him in subduing rebellious barons, finally defeating their assembled forces near Caen in 1047.
      • These, when provided with permanent garrisons, would become the centres from which the countryside could be subdued and governed.
      • Once England is subdued, French forces need to turn on Germany / Scandinavia, with an excursion into the Med. if resources permit.
      • How can we possibly afford to subdue country after country in war?
      • Government forces sent to subdue the rebellion actually drove more Karens into joining the rebels.
      • His forces killed thousands of Bengalis in a systematic attempt to subdue their struggle for liberation and independence.
      • They forced their way in from all directions and surrounded the blacks in a way that subdued them without firing a shot.

Derivatives

  • subduable

  • adjective
    • In other words, she becomes a subordinate and subduable version of the master.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘I think today a lot of people felt this game would make or break us,’ said nose tackle Vince Wilfork after the Patriots subdued the eminently subduable New York Jets, 16-3.
      • Our ancestors had known that nature was not subduable and, therefore, had made it an obligation for man to surrender to nature and live in tune with it.
      • Godhead is the Lord of ‘maya’ the soul is subduable by the deluding or limiting energy (maya).
  • subduer

  • noun
    • By the end of the novel, Lovelace cannot but concede that she has become irretrievably independent of him, and he complains to Belford, ‘Oh the triumphant subduer!’

Origin

Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French suduire, from Latin subducere, literally 'draw from below'.

  • duct from mid 17th century:

    Duct comes from Latin ductus meaning both ‘leading’ and ‘aqueduct’ formed from ducere ‘to lead’. The verb has produced numerous words in English including abduct (early 17th century) to lead away; conduct (Middle English) lead with; conduit (Middle English); deduce (Late Middle English) draw a conclusion from something; duke; educate (Late Middle English) ‘lead out’; induce (Late Middle English) lead in; introduce (Late Middle English) bring into (a group etc); produce (Late Middle English) ‘lead forward’; reduce (Late Middle English) bring back; seduce (Late Middle English) lead away (originally from duty, with the sexual sense developing in the M16th); subdue (Late Middle English) ‘draw from below’.

Rhymes

accrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, ballyhoo, bamboo, bedew, bestrew, billet-doux, blew, blue, boo, boohoo, brew, buckaroo, canoe, chew, clew, clou, clue, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockatoo, construe, coo, Corfu, coup, crew, Crewe, cru, cue, déjà vu, derring-do, dew, didgeridoo, do, drew, due, endue, ensue, eschew, feu, few, flew, flu, flue, foreknew, glue, gnu, goo, grew, halloo, hereto, hew, Hindu, hitherto, how-do-you-do, hue, Hugh, hullabaloo, imbrue, imbue, jackaroo, Jew, kangaroo, Karroo, Kathmandu, kazoo, Kiangsu, knew, Kru, K2, kung fu, Lahu, Lanzhou, Lao-tzu, lasso, lieu, loo, Lou, Manchu, mangetout, mew, misconstrue, miscue, moo, moue, mu, nardoo, new, non-U, nu, ooh, outdo, outflew, outgrew, peekaboo, Peru, pew, plew, Poitou, pooh, pooh-pooh, potoroo, pursue, queue, revue, roo, roux, rue, Selous, set-to, shampoo, shih-tzu, shoe, shoo, shrew, Sioux, skean dhu, skew, skidoo, slew, smew, snafu, sou, spew, sprue, stew, strew, sue, switcheroo, taboo, tattoo, thereto, thew, threw, thro, through, thru, tickety-boo, Timbuktu, tiramisu, to, to-do, too, toodle-oo, true, true-blue, tu-whit tu-whoo, two, vendue, view, vindaloo, virtu, wahoo, wallaroo, Waterloo, well-to-do, whereto, whew, who, withdrew, woo, Wu, yew, you, zoo
 
 

Definition of subdue in US English:

subdue

verbsəbˈd(y)o͞osəbˈd(j)u
[with object]
  • 1Overcome, quieten, or bring under control (a feeling or person)

    she managed to subdue an instinct to applaud
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Secret Service responded, dousing the fire and subduing the man.
    • Underdevelopment is the process by which capitalist forces expand to subdue and impoverish the Third World.
    • You can hear him subdue an audience that he himself has aroused.
    • During the training, she learnt to deliver several punches and elbow blows so quickly they would subdue an aggressor before he knew what hit him.
    • This explains why the pro-hunt protesters were subdued not by policemen, but by a group of men in frock coats who looked like they belonged to John Cleese's Ministry of Silly Walks.
    • That defeat, time and again, cannot subdue some men is not merely amazing, it is moving.
    • The pair managed to subdue a man who was holding his ex-partner at knifepoint in front of their seven-year-old son.
    • According to sacred lore, most of Bhutan's gods were subdued by early Buddhist saints.
    • So, they throw like girls, which implies weakness, yet they were vicious attackers who needed to be subdued with significant force?
    • Roles include trying to subdue psychotic children, breaking up fights in the school yard and general administrative duties.
    • In Germany, two robbers chose an unique method of subduing their victim when they left a taxi driver glued to his steering wheel and escaped with 300 euros.
    • Some of them want to flaunt affluence in all sorts of ways while others subdue their inclination to spend or buy property.
    • Blair passed over his best chance to subdue his friend and rival by moving him to the Foreign Office in the wake of the last election landslide.
    • West Midlands police used a non-lethal Taser stun gun to subdue one of the bombing suspects captured last week.
    • We cannot let them succeed, for, as Benjamin Franklin put it, ‘Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.’
    • Jag Johal and police service dog Stryker helped subdue the suspects and both were arrested.
    • It subdues their emotional force by assigning rational meaning to them, however irrational or incomprehensible the impressions might originally have been.
    • Breathing deeply, I tried to subdue the gnawing feeling deep in my stomach.
    • That they did, but with such a heavy hand that the narcotic gas used to subdue the terrorists also accounted for over 100 hostages.
    • Inherent in these excerpts are not only the self-exculpatory motives but also the persuasive elements of domination deliberately subduing the coercive aspects of an unequal relationship.
    Synonyms
    conquer, defeat, vanquish, get the better of, overpower, overcome, overwhelm, crush, quash, quell, beat, trounce, subjugate, master, suppress, gain the upper hand over, triumph over, tame, bring someone to their knees, hold in check, humble, chasten, cow
    curb, restrain, hold back, constrain, contain, inhibit, repress, suppress, stifle, smother, check, keep in check, arrest, bridle, rein in
    1. 1.1 Bring (a country or people) under control by force.
      Charles went on a campaign to subdue the Saxons
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He subdues the nations through bearing witness to the truth, suffering and offering his own life.
      • In some cases, security meant subduing forces inimical to that government.
      • His forces killed thousands of Bengalis in a systematic attempt to subdue their struggle for liberation and independence.
      • His desire to realize Henry VIII's plan to subdue French influence in Scotland and achieve the union of the Crowns became an obsession.
      • Under this pressure, the last shogun resigned, and imperial troops easily subdued such Tokugawa forces as resisted.
      • The settler population and government forces used extreme levels of violence to subdue the native Mexicans.
      • Once England is subdued, French forces need to turn on Germany / Scandinavia, with an excursion into the Med. if resources permit.
      • He began to assert his authority from about 1045, calling upon his feudal lord King Henri I of France to assist him in subduing rebellious barons, finally defeating their assembled forces near Caen in 1047.
      • During the war itself, a larger invading force might have subdued his areas of support before they had time to organize.
      • But the failure to subdue the insurgencies in both countries has produced differences over how to proceed.
      • They were a thorn in the side of the occupying Roman forces, who had to subdue these hostile natives if they were to establish, safely, the new capital of Londinium.
      • These, when provided with permanent garrisons, would become the centres from which the countryside could be subdued and governed.
      • The British air force went in and subdued his own tribal allies.
      • Government forces sent to subdue the rebellion actually drove more Karens into joining the rebels.
      • The main aim of the wars of new generation is to subdue other countries.
      • How can we possibly afford to subdue country after country in war?
      • They forced their way in from all directions and surrounded the blacks in a way that subdued them without firing a shot.
      • North Ossetia lies to the west of the seething Chechnya region where Russian forces have been trying to subdue separatists for a decade.
      • But the legions were forced to return several times to subdue them and Caesar finally lost patience, so he cut off one hand of every soldier.
      • Through force of arms it had subdued the surrounding lands, though they had treated the inhabitants fairly.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French suduire, from Latin subducere, literally ‘draw from below’.

 
 
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