(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.
(v. t.) To overpower so as to disable from further resistance; to crush.
(v. t.) To destroy the force of; to overcome; as, medicines subdue a fever.
(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.
(v. t.) To overcome, as by persuasion or other mild means; as, to subdue opposition by argument or entreaties.
(v. t.) To reduce to tenderness; to melt; to soften; as, to subdue ferocity by tears.
(v. t.) To make mellow; to break, as land; also, to destroy, as weeds.
(v. t.) To reduce the intensity or degree of; to tone down; to soften; as, to subdue the brilliancy of colors.
Example Sentences:
(1) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
(2) Hopes that the Queen's diamond jubilee and the £9bn spent on the Olympics would lift sales over the longer term have largely been dashed as growth slows and the outlook, though robust with a growing order book, remains subdued.
(3) The director general of the CML, Paul Smee, said: "January is always a subdued month in the mortgage market but the underlying trend and strong year-on-year growth across all borrower groups indicates a strong start to 2014 continuing the sort of lending levels seen throughout 2013.
(4) England had started with some well-executed set piece moves, a triangular formation in midfield initially foxing Australia, but it was the Wallabies’ ability to react in open play that marked them out: Foley’s first try, after Israel Folau, otherwise subdued on the night, ran through Robshaw, came after he noticed Ben Youngs had drifted too wide and cut inside the scrum-half and Joe Launchbury before wrongfooting Brown.
(5) An investigation by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem concluded that while she did have a knife under her niqab veil she posed no threat to soldiers at the time she was shot and could have been subdued without being fatally wounded.
(6) In these cases, the woman’s wardrobe must feature subdued tones.
(7) Releasing its quarterly inflation report, the Bank's monetary policy committee admitted that the UK recession was deeper than previously thought and that inflation would stay very subdued for a long time – a signal that interest rates will not rise in the short term.
(8) He does not have the ingenuity of Diego Maradona or the lawless wit of Luis Suárez, so does not cast spells over opponents, but he has shown that he can certainly help subdue them and uplift his team.
(9) The company blamed the decline in performance on a challenging trading and competitive environment, ongoing subdued consumer sentiment and economic uncertainty, the effect of strong market capacity growth and an unrecovered $27m cost of the carbon tax.
(10) And we are hopeful that a recovery in productivity will keep firms' cost pressures subdued," its economists said in a research note.
(11) "However, one area of the market which is subdued is remortgaging – all the more surprising when you consider the excellent rates available and the threat of an interest rate rise.
(12) Examples included officers punching and using pepper spray on people who have already been subdued, including after they have been handcuffed and at times “as punishment for the person’s earlier verbal or physical resistance”.
(13) In the Alevi association, in this subdued but defiant campaign, Demirtaş looked past the cameras, his gaze static and distant, and seemed not to be there.
(14) Believing the suspect’s magazine was empty, he chased the gunman in hopes of subduing him.
(15) No, Mourinho always wants to win but the priority was certainly to hold the fort – and there is no better team in England when it comes to subduing high-calibre opponents.
(16) Forming a coalition will be challenging, while operational considerations must not be subordinate to political ones, Emile Hokayem of the International Institute for Strategic Studies told the Guardian: "A coalition in which sectarian Iraqi Shia militias play a key role because these are Baghdad's only or most reliable troops, or in which Kurdish fighters are asked to operate far from their territories, could antagonise the very constituency whose support against Isis is fundamental: the various local Sunni communities who have accommodated or been subdued by Isis."
(17) The crowd was initially subdued, having just seen Murray crash out and there were plenty of empty seats when the match began.
(18) It had begun as a subdued explosion, really, in the early 1960s, when a new generation of bohemians began to adapt and mutate the culture of the 'Beats' - Jack Kerouac et al - which had installed itself on North Beach during the late 1950s.
(19) A subdued Rosberg was in his shoulder-shrugging mood.
(20) The results indicate that the extent of DNA degradation to acid-soluble nucleotides is highest in chromatin at the early stages of gonad growth, being drastically subdued in the mature sperm cell.
Tamer
Definition:
(n.) One who tames or subdues.
Example Sentences:
(1) That makes you a "fairy", to use the tamer word Rice used.
(2) Besides, city birds are generally far tamer and easier to see than those in wilder places; a distinct advantage given my current jetlagged state.
(3) "I want the people to know there are army officers who are with them," Major Tamer Samir Badr told the Guardian.
(4) The case's chief prosecutor, Tamer el-Firgani, said Morsi, his aides and senior Brotherhood members had "handed over secrets to foreign countries, among them national defense secrets, and handed over a number of security reports to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in order to destabilize the country's security and stability."
(5) The new work I am watching her laboriously install in Leeds Art Gallery also, on first glance, seems much tamer than her subversive collages.
(6) He was conceived after Tamer's sperm was smuggled out of an Israeli prison, across a stringent military checkpoint into Gaza, and impregnated into an egg harvested from Hana at a fertility clinic in Gaza City.
(7) He is thought to have sold at least one picture – a painting called Lion Tamer by Beckmann – since his flat was first raided by the police.
(8) One gouache, Lion Tamer by Max Beckmann, which had been sold by Gurlitt to a Cologne auction house in 2011, had originally belonged to the Jewish art dealer and collector Alfred Flechtheim.
(9) Tamer Abd el-Raouf, a journalist for the state newspaper, al-Ahram, in Beheira, has been shot and killed at an army checkpoint.
(10) Hana al-Za'anin and her husband, Tamer, have not set eyes on each other, let alone had physical contact, for almost seven years.
(11) Tamer of the Tigers Widely seen as the architect of Sri Lanka's military success against the Tamil Tigers , General Sarath Fonseka is credited with eliminating the separatist group's leadership and ending a war that began in 1983 and killed more than 70,000 people.
(12) "I called Tamer to say I was pregnant, and I could hear cheering.
(13) Caldeira Velha (signposted from Lagao do Fogo, entry €6) offers a tamer dip, but in green jungly beauty so lush as to remind me of Hawaii.
(14) France recently adopted a 75% tax on millionaires ; the Australian Greens are much tamer with their meagre 50% tax.
(15) The passengers listed Princess Beatrice Howard Donald Sam Mendes Jason Orange Charlize Theron Coleen Rooney Matt Lucas Paul Merton Russell Brand Richard E Grant James May and Jeremy Clarkson Debbie Harry Jeremy Kyle Kate Winslet Denise van Outen Michael McIntyre Matt Le Tissier Yasmin Le Bon Lennox Lewis Julia Ormond Lily Cole Rihanna Colin Farrell Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan Rupert Grint Anna Friel Daniel Radcliffe Glenn Hoddle Amanda Holden Belinda Carlisle 'Madonna's kids' Madonna Alan Carr Michael Madsen Eva Longoria Len Goodman Nigel Havers Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen Joan Collins Fergie (Black Eyed Peas singer) Taio Cruz Hugh Dancy Jared Leto Mel B Graham Norton Rob Brydon Ross Kemp Trevor and Sharon Eve Jonathan Ross Tamer Hassan Kelly Osbourne Dom Joly Amanda Redman Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) Serena Williams Jack Osbourne Katherine Jackson Neve Campbell Ralph Fiennes
(16) • The article was amended on 15 October 2013 to include details of Tamer's criminal record.
(17) He hoped I could persuade Mechtild Nawiasky, the fiery picture editor who had once been a lion-tamer, to use news photographs as well as the moody, soft-focus pictures she favoured on the front page.
(18) "It is sad that Turkey is still number one in Europe when it comes to work accidents," said Tamer Kücükgencay, the chairman of the regional miners' union.
(19) Michael Oates Palmer, staff writer on The West Wing, applied less reverence when he said: "They're the ringmaster, the elephant tamer and the people who clean the cages."
(20) The PAC is a much tamer affair now that Margaret Hodge has stood down as its chair, but it does still have its own pet rotty in the bullet-headed Stephen Phillips who manages to fit in his work as MP with a £750,000 day job as a QC.