Word Meanings - SUBDUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish. I will subdue all thine enemies. 1 Chron. xvii. 10. 2. To overpower so as to disable from further
Additional info about word: SUBDUE
1. To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish. I will subdue all thine enemies. 1 Chron. xvii. 10. 2. To overpower so as to disable from further resistance; to crush. Nothing could have subdued nature To such a lowness, but his unkind daughters. Shak. If aught . . . were worthy to subdue The soul of man. Milton. 3. To destroy the force of; to overcome; as, medicines subdue a fever. 4. To render submissive; to bring under command; to reduce to mildness or obedience; to tame; as, to subdue a stubborn child; to subdue the temper or passions. 5. To overcome, as by persuasion or other mild means; as, to subdue opposition by argument or entreaties. 6. To reduce to tenderness; to melt; to soften; as, to subdue ferocity by tears. 7. To make mellow; to break, as land; also, to destroy, as weeds. 8. To reduce the intensity or degree of; to tone down; to soften; as, to subdue the brilliancy of colors. Syn. -- To conquer; overpower; overcome; surmount; vanquish. See Conquer.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUBDUE)
- Attemper
- Moderate
- subdue
- compound
- commingle
- adapt
- adjust
- harmonize
- modify
- blend
- attune
- mix
- mold
- work
- medicate
- amalgamate
- accommodate
- Blunt
- To subdue
- repress
- tranquilize
- discourage
- ossify
- numb
- harden
- Break
- Fracture
- rupture
- shatter
- shiver
- destroy
- tame
- curb
- demolish
- tear asunder
- rend
- burst
- sever
- smash
- split
- violate
- infringe
- Conquer
- Subdue
- vanquish
- surmount
- overcome
- overpower
- overthrow
- defeat
- crush
- master
- subjugate
- prevail over
- Deaden
- Benumb
- paralyze
- blunt
- damp
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SUBDUE)
Related words: (words related to SUBDUE)
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See SPERMOBLAST - SPECIFICNESS
The quality or state of being specific. - MODIFY
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A simple infinitive with to, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive. - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - SPERMATICAL
Spermatic. - BURSTEN
p. p. of Burst, v. i. - SPECTROGRAPH
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Capable of being broken. - SPECTATORSHIP
1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak. - SPECE
Species; kind. Chaucer. - SPEECHLESS
1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n. - SPENDTHRIFT
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A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar. - ADAPTABLE
Capable of being adapted. - SPEED COUNTER
A device for automatically counting the revolutions or pulsations of an engine or other machine; -- called also simply counter. - CREMASTERIC
Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery. - ASPER
Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. "An asper sound." Bacon. - PERSEVERANCE
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Producing one seed only in a seed pod. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - BAGGAGE MASTER
One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. - DISPENSE
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The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoön in impregnation. Balfour. - MISPENSE
See HALL - LAWBREAKER
One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a. - INDISPENSABLENESS
The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke. - DISSHIVER
To shiver or break in pieces.