All 8 Uses

subdue
in
Hunger Games Book #2 (Catching Fire)
(Edited)

"About trying to subdue things in the districts," he says.
Chpt 6

subdue = control or put down by force or intimidation
Downstairs, I find my mother and Prim tending to a subdued Gale.
Chpt 9

subdued = controlled, prevented, or made less intense
It took less than forty-eight hours to subdue the city.
Chpt 10 *

subdue = defeat and bring under control
In the few minutes of privacy we've had, with me walking him back to town, I gather that the rumblings of an uprising in 12 have been subdued by Thread's crackdown.
Chpt 12

subdued = controlled, prevented, or made less intense
I'm cold and wet and winded, but my escape attempt has done nothing to subdue the hysteria rising up inside me.
Chpt 13

subdue = control or put down by force or intimidation
Getting rid of me and subduing the districts all in one neat little package.
Chpt 13

subduing = controlling, preventing, or making less intense
The meal's subdued.
Chpt 14 *

subdued = quiet (of low intensity)
So subdued, in fact, that there are long periods of silence relieved only by the removal of old dishes and presentation of new ones.
Chpt 14

subdued = not intense, or less active

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