0 present participle of subdue
1 to reduce the force of something, or to prevent something from existing or developing:
The fire burned for eight hours before the fire crews could subdue it.
He criticized the school for trying to subdue individual expression.
Thus, our troops often encountered very serious difficulties in subduing these earthen fortifications, which offered no opening to attack.
The fact that the vorticity lines, which are azimuthal circles, are continually being shortened by the in-flow also should have a 'subduing' effect on the flow.
A plan for subduing inflation.
It does not reduce the necessity of subduing again.
This is not subduing the spirit but liberating it.
They seem to have been very successful in subduing them.
Instead, we human beings have been set the – even biblical – task of subduing the earth.
I asked whether they would be effective in subduing the opponent.
