subdue
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subdue
- /səbˈdu/ US
- /səbˈdjuː/ UK
- /səbˈdʒuː/ UK
- /sʌb-/ UK
Where it comes from
From Middle English subdewen, subduen, sodewen, from Old French souduire, from Latin subdūcō (“to draw away”), perhaps influenced by subdō (“to subdue, subject”).
verb subdues · subduing · subdued
- 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, […]
- To bring (a country) under control by force. 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 impedime
