Crossword-Solution: SUBDUE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Subdue | v. t. | To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish. |
| Subdue | v. t. | To overpower so as to disable from further resistance; to crush. |
| Subdue | v. t. | To destroy the force of; to overcome; as, medicines subdue a fever. |
| Subdue | v. t. | 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. |
| Subdue | v. t. | To overcome, as by persuasion or other mild means; as, to subdue opposition by argument or entreaties. |
| Subdue | v. t. | To reduce to tenderness; to melt; to soften; as, to subdue ferocity by tears. |
| Subdue | v. t. | To make mellow; to break, as land; also, to destroy, as weeds. |
| Subdue | v. t. | To reduce the intensity or degree of; to tone down; to soften; as, to subdue the brilliancy of colors. |
We have 71 clues for the answer “SUBDUE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bring under control by force or persuasion | 1 answer |
| Allay inflammation | 1 answer |
| Overcome, quieten | 1 answer |
| Overpower by force | 1 answer |
| Pin in a ring, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Pin in a ring, say | 1 answer |
| Force into submission after a defeat | 2 answers |
| Bring under control by force | 2 answers |
| Get under control | 4 answers |
| Keep (down) | 5 answers |
| MAKE obedient | 6 answers |
| Tone arm item | 6 answers |
| Put an end to a rebellion | 7 answers |
| Bring under control | 8 answers |
| blanch over | 14 answers |
| FINISH first | 17 answers |
| Sugar-coat | 19 answers |
| quieten | 22 answers |
| extenuate | 22 answers |
| render civil | 23 answers |
| Melt. | 24 answers |
| enslave | 24 answers |
| Bear down? | 24 answers |
| Obviate | 25 answers |
| Palliate | 26 answers |
| housebreak | 27 answers |
| tread on | 27 answers |
| Stomp | 27 answers |
| illumine | 28 answers |
| Varnish | 28 answers |
| Tone down | 31 answers |
| MAKE unwilling | 31 answers |
| Veneer | 31 answers |
| humanize | 32 answers |
| bate | 34 answers |
| Pacify | 35 answers |
| Appease | 35 answers |
| overmaster | 36 answers |
| strangle | 39 answers |
| Justify | 39 answers |
| Conquer | 39 answers |
| Educate | 40 answers |
| vacate | 42 answers |
| Prevail | 43 answers |
| Elucidate | 43 answers |
| Vanquish | 44 answers |
| absolve | 45 answers |
| Enrich | 45 answers |
| Quash | 46 answers |
| filter | 47 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SUBDUE (5)
Male he created thee, but thy consort Femal for Race; then bless’d Mankinde, and said, Be fruitful, multiplie, and fill the Earth, Subdue it, and throughout Dominion hold Over Fish of the Sea, and Fowle of the Aire, And every living thing that moves on the Earth.
The hands, the tongue, the eyes, the heart, all the bodily desires we are commanded to subdue; but the feet are free members.
Victorious deeds Flamed in my heart, heroic acts—one while To rescue Israel from the Roman yoke; Then to subdue and quell, o’er all the earth, Brute violence and proud tyrannic power, Till truth were freed, and equity restored: 220 Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear; At least to try, and teach the erring soul, Not wilfully misdoing, but unware Misled; the stubborn only to subdue.
The time I have spent, and am yet to spend in concealment, is, as I explained to thee at Saint Botolph’s, necessary to give my friends and faithful nobles time to assemble their forces, that when Richard’s return is announced, he should be at the head of such a force as enemies shall tremble to face, and thus subdue the meditated treason, without even unsheathing a sword.
You're in a gentleman's house now--or you ought to be--and you shan't see company in your dressing-gown." Penelope hurried in to subdue her mother's anger.
Quotes with SUBDUE (3)
You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you you hate it because you are afraid of it you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.
What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.
Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 29 times in crossword archives (1992–2024).