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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu

Meaning of "subdue" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SUBDUE

Sobdue, from Old French soduire to mislead, from Latin subdūcere to remove; English sense influenced by Latin subdere to subject.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SUBDUE

subdue  [səbˈdjuː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUBDUE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Subdue is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb subdue in English.

WHAT DOES SUBDUE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of subdue in the English dictionary

The first definition of subdue in the dictionary is to establish ascendancy over by force. Other definition of subdue is to overcome and bring under control, as by intimidation or persuasion. Subdue is also to hold in check or repress.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SUBDUE

PRESENT

Present
I subdue
you subdue
he/she/it subdues
we subdue
you subdue
they subdue
Present continuous
I am subduing
you are subduing
he/she/it is subduing
we are subduing
you are subduing
they are subduing
Present perfect
I have subdued
you have subdued
he/she/it has subdued
we have subdued
you have subdued
they have subdued
Present perfect continuous
I have been subduing
you have been subduing
he/she/it has been subduing
we have been subduing
you have been subduing
they have been subduing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I subdued
you subdued
he/she/it subdued
we subdued
you subdued
they subdued
Past continuous
I was subduing
you were subduing
he/she/it was subduing
we were subduing
you were subduing
they were subduing
Past perfect
I had subdued
you had subdued
he/she/it had subdued
we had subdued
you had subdued
they had subdued
Past perfect continuous
I had been subduing
you had been subduing
he/she/it had been subduing
we had been subduing
you had been subduing
they had been subduing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will subdue
you will subdue
he/she/it will subdue
we will subdue
you will subdue
they will subdue
Future continuous
I will be subduing
you will be subduing
he/she/it will be subduing
we will be subduing
you will be subduing
they will be subduing
Future perfect
I will have subdued
you will have subdued
he/she/it will have subdued
we will have subdued
you will have subdued
they will have subdued
Future perfect continuous
I will have been subduing
you will have been subduing
he/she/it will have been subduing
we will have been subduing
you will have been subduing
they will have been subduing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would subdue
you would subdue
he/she/it would subdue
we would subdue
you would subdue
they would subdue
Conditional continuous
I would be subduing
you would be subduing
he/she/it would be subduing
we would be subduing
you would be subduing
they would be subduing
Conditional perfect
I would have subdue
you would have subdue
he/she/it would have subdue
we would have subdue
you would have subdue
they would have subdue
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been subduing
you would have been subduing
he/she/it would have been subduing
we would have been subduing
you would have been subduing
they would have been subduing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you subdue
we let´s subdue
you subdue
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to subdue
Past participle
subdued
Present Participle
subduing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUBDUE


adieu
əˈdjuː
bedew
bɪˈdjuː
deaw
djuː
dew
djuː
due
djuː
d´you
djuː
endue
ɪnˈdjuː
fondue
ˈfɒndjuː
honeydew
ˈhʌnɪˌdjuː
indue
ɪnˈdjuː
mildew
ˈmɪlˌdjuː
overdue
ˌəʊvəˈdjuː
perdu
ˈpɜːdjuː
perdue
ˈpɜːdjuː
residue
ˈrɛzɪˌdjuː
sundew
ˈsʌnˌdjuː
undue
ʌnˈdjuː
vendue
ˈvɛndjuː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUBDUE

subdolous
subdominant
subdorsal
subduable
subduably
subdual
subduce
subduct
subduction
subduction zone
subdued
subduedly
subduedness
subduement
subduer
subduing
subduple
subduplicate
subdural
subdwarf

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUBDUE

antique
avenue
blue
boutique
cire perdue
continue
give a person his due
give the devil his due
hue
issue
league
out of the blue
politique
rue
sue
technique
true
unique
value
venue

Synonyms and antonyms of subdue in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SUBDUE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «subdue» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of subdue

Translation of «subdue» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SUBDUE

Find out the translation of subdue to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of subdue from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «subdue» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

制服
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

contener
570 millions of speakers

English

subdue
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वश
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

إخضاع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

подчинить
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

subjugar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দমন করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

soumettre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Subdue
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unterwerfen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

鎮圧する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

진압하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Subdue
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chinh phục
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அடிபணிய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दंड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

boyun eğdirmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sottomettere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ujarzmić
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

підпорядкувати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

supune
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υποτάξει
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onderwerp
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kuva
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

undertrykke
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of subdue

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBDUE»

The term «subdue» is quite widely used and occupies the 49.075 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBDUE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «subdue» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «subdue» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about subdue

EXAMPLES

3 QUOTES WITH «SUBDUE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word subdue.
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
2
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
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Sun Tzu
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUBDUE»

Discover the use of subdue in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to subdue and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics: 6th ...
In the next section we present an overview of the SUBDUE system. Both the original and the NEW-MPI- SUBDUE are described in Section 3. We follow with the description and analysis of experimental results of testing both algorithms on three ...
Roman Wyrzykowski, 2006
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Neutralizing the Power of Fear: How to Subdue Your Fears and ...
Offering a therapeutic response to anxiety that will help you take control of your life again, Dr. Henry will teach you how to use Christian principles and scripture to: Understand the fundamentals of intimacy Recognize the categories of ...
Casalnnie O. Henry, 2008
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Advances in Mining Graphs, Trees and Sequences
Two specific approaches, Subdue [4] and GBI [27], take a greedy approach to finding subgraphs maximizing an information theoretic measure. Subdue searches the space of subgraphs by extending candidate subgraphs by one edge.
Takashi Washio, Joost N. Kok, Luc de Raedt, 2005
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Voice of Choice: Subdue the Bully
Spiders do not have teeth and do not chew their victims. Instead, they fill the bodies of their victims with poisonous juices which dissolve the victim’s insides. This is why you see the spider’s victims laying in their webs.
Olivia Erinn, 2013
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Zhu Xi's Reading of the Analects: Canon, Commentary, and the ...
Ke [to subdue] is sheng, "to overcome or subdue." Ji [the self] refers to the selfish desires of the self [shen zhi si yu]. Fu [to return] is fan, "to return." Li [ritual] is heavenly principle in measured display. "The practice of true goodness" is the means ...
Daniel K. Gardner, 2003
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Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2006: ...
The obtained results of applying the former metrics reveal that there is no solution obtained by EMO-CC that is dominated by APRIORI, and only one so- lution obtained by SUBDUE dominates solutions belonging to the Pareto front found by  ...
Franz Rothlauf, 2006
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Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 8th ...
DB-Subdue: Database Approach to Graph Mining* Sharma Chakravarthy, Ramji Beera, and Ramanathan Balachandran Information Technology Laboratory and CSE Department The University of Texas at Arlington {sharma, beera, balachan}  ...
Honghua Dai, Ramakrishnan Srikant, Chengqi Zhang, 2004
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Ayurvedic Healing Cuisine
While solid, raw cucumbers cannot be tolerated by patients with chronic stom- Subdues Bile (Pitta) and Mucus (Kapha) Subdue Wind (Vata) and Mucus (Kapha ) Subdues all three doshas Subdue Wind (Vata) and Mucus (Kapha) Subdue Wind ...
Harish Johari, 2000
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Pattern Discovery in Biomolecular Data : Tools, Techniques, ...
The Subdue discovery system was initially developed using only domain- independent heuristics to evaluate potential substructures. As a result, some of the discovered substructures may not be useful and relevant to specific domains of ...
Jason T. L. Wang Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science New Jersey Institute of Technology, National Institutes of Health Bruce A. Shapiro Principal Investigator and Computer Specialist Biology National Cancer Institute, New York University Dennis Shasha Professor of Computer Science Courant Institute of Mathematical Science, 1999
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The Arising Voice: (Vol. 1)
“Fill the Earth and Subdue It” (Genesis 1:28) Subdue meaning: To put down by force or authority or to hold within limits and control. (Webster Online) This is the first command giving to by our creator. He said “Let us make man in our image, ...
Richard Allen Kent

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUBDUE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term subdue is used in the context of the following news items.
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Man in critical condition after Worcester police subdue him with Taser
WORCESTER - A man who police say was "suffering from a medical condition" after being subdued with a Taser electroshock weapon Wednesday afternoon ... «Worcester Telegram, Jul 15»
2
Woman allegedly stun-gunned, raped at Hendrix off-campus …
CONWAY, Ark. (KTHV) -- Conway police are investigating the alleged rape of a woman who said men broke into her apartment and subdued her with a stun gun ... «THV 11, Jul 15»
3
Video: Good Samaritans help Utah deputy subdue suspect
WEBER COUNTY, Ut. – Two motorists are to thank for helping stop an assault on a Utah sheriff's deputy Wednesday. The Weber County deputy stopped ... «KSN-TV, Jul 15»
4
Police use Taser to subdue Sooke man threatening to hurt himself
Police used a Taser to subdue a man believed to have a shotgun after dozens of officers searched for him in East Sooke. Sooke RCMP received a call about 7 ... «Times Colonist, Jul 15»
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Business Owner Helps Subdue Attempted Robbery Suspect
The owner, and a couple of good Samaritans were able to subdue the robber. When deputies got on scene, Cantley was bound with zip ties, and held at ... «WSAZ-TV, Jun 15»
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Citizens Help Stillwater Officer Subdue Drugged-Out Suspect During …
Police say the officer unsuccessfully tried to subdue Viol with a stun gun and that a fight broke out between the men. Eventually two drivers stopped and helped ... «News On 6, Jun 15»
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Thousands of people in nursing homes being given powerful …
Thousands of older people in nursing homes are being given powerful sedatives to subdue challenging behaviour, according to a report in today's Irish Times. «Newstalk 106-108 fm, Jun 15»
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Newport News police subdue suspect after officer assaulted
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) – Police in Newport News say they used a Taser to subdue a man accused of stealing a truck and trying to choke an officer. «WRIC, May 15»
9
Canon City police subdue suicidal man
CANON CITY — Canon City police shot nonlethal “beanbag” rounds and a Taser to subdue a suicidal man who was throwing knives at them early Monday ... «Pueblo Chieftain, May 15»
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Taser deployed to subdue knife-wielding man at hostel
Police successfully deployed a Taser to subdue the man, who was taken into custody without further incident. He has been charged with Assault and obstructing ... «Rockhampton Morning Bulletin, Apr 15»

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