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subdue
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subdue as a verb as in: subdued the opposition

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She was threatening people with a knife, but police used a Taser to subdue her.
subdue = overcome and control
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    The government subdued the uprising.
    subdued = put down or brought it under control
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    No amount of anger or rage directed at others can subdue it, because guilt is never about them.  (source)
    subdue = overcome (get under control)
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    At school that day everyone was subdued, even those who had opposed Benazir.  (source)
    subdued = quiet (of low intensity)
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    "About trying to subdue things in the districts," he says.  (source)
    subdue = control or put down by force or intimidation
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    When her old self can be manifest without any controlling force subduing or restraining her, or inciting her to action.  (source)
    subduing = bringing under control
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    "Ladies and gentlemen," one of the guards called, "the rebels have been subdued."  (source)
    subdued = brought under control
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    It not only reduces the pain but it subdues the nausea.†  (source)
    subdues = controls, prevents, or makes less intense
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    Then why have we suffered such a land as Narnia to remain thus long unsubdued?†  (source)
    unsubdued = not controlled, prevented, or made less intense
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsubdued means not and reverses the meaning of subdued. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    18:47 It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.†  (source)
    subdueth = controls, prevents, or makes less intense
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She subdueth" in older English, today we say "She subdues."
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    It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love,—this hunger of the heart,—as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.†  (source)
    subduer = someone who controls, prevents, or makes less intense
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    Mask them all, and the mere turn of the head would have shown an unsubduable nature.†  (source)
    unsubduable = not able to control, prevent, or make less intense
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsubduable means not and reverses the meaning of subduable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The land of Shakespeare, Milton, Bacon, Newton, Watt, the land of a host of past and present abstract philosophers, natural philosophers, and subduers of Nature and Art in their myriad forms, called to Mr Sparkler to come and take care of it, lest it should perish.†  (source)
    subduers = people who control, prevent, or make less intense
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    The generals would have known better how to subdue a raging jabberwock than a mourning child.  (source)
    subdue = get under control
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subdued adjective as in: subdued colors or mood

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    Her dress was a subdued shade of yellow.
    subdued = soft (not bright)
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    Driving back in the fading light, Malcolm seemed oddly subdued.  (source)
    subdued = quiet and less active than normal
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    No question, it's acting a little subdued, but the wasp is up and moving and that means the others will be out soon as well.  (source)
    subdued = calm
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    T.J., however, was surprisingly subdued when he settled into the wagon; I suppose that at three-thirty in the morning even T.J.'s mouth was tired.  (source)
    subdued = less intense
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    [subduedly] Come, mother: we must leave them to talk over the arrangements†  (source)
    subduedly = in a manner that is not intense, or less active
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    The Herbology class was very subdued; there were now two missing from their number, Justin and Hermione.  (source)
    subdued = quiet -- perhaps thoughtful
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    [He looks round apprehensively Seeing no one within earshot he plucks up courage to boom again, but more subduedly]†  (source)
    subduedly = in a manner that is not intense, or less active
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    Two days later, when I arrived for our next meeting, he was subdued.  (source)
    subdued = calm (of low intensity)
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    "By the way," he said in an even more subdued voice, "we aren't going to talk about this."  (source)
    subdued = mild
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    Bep is also very subdued.  (source)
    subdued = quiet
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    The assembly murmured in subdued agreement.  (source)
    subdued = quiet (of low intensity)
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    The demeanour of the black-uniformed men suddenly became more subdued.  (source)
    subdued = less intense
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    A subdued slam above told that the door of the east gable had been shut with equal vehemence.  (source)
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