subduing

v. conquer, overcome, defeat; gain control over, bring into submission, master; reduce the intensity of; cultivate land

Verb
1. put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
(synonym) repress, quash, keep down, subjugate, reduce
(hypernym) oppress, suppress, crush
(derivation) subduer, surmounter, overcomer
2. to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires"
(synonym) suppress, stamp down, inhibit, conquer, curb
(hypernym) control, hold in, hold, contain, check, curb, moderate
(hyponym) wink, blink, blink away
(derivation) subduer, surmounter, overcomer
3. hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh"
(synonym) mortify, cricify
(hypernym) control, hold in, hold, contain, check, curb, moderate
(hyponym) mortify
(entail) abstain, refrain, desist
4. get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness"
(synonym) overcome, get over, surmount, master
(hypernym) get the better of, overcome, defeat
(hyponym) bulldog
5. make subordinate, dependent, or subservient; "Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler"
(synonym) subordinate
(hypernym) lower, lour
6. correct by punishment or discipline
(synonym) tame, chasten
(hypernym) change, alter, modify

(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Subdue
  

Synonyms and related words:
Cadmean victory, KO, Pyrrhic victory, Waterloo, abating, allaying, alleviating, alleviative, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, ascendancy, assuaging, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, beating, benumbing, blunting, cathartic, championship, chastening, cleansing, collapse, conquering, conquest, crash, cushioning, dampening, damping, deadening, deathblow, debacle, defeat, demulcent, destruction, diminishing, downfall, drubbing, dulling, easing, easy victory, emollient, failure, fall, grand slam, hiding, knockout, lambasting, landslide, landslide victory, lathering, lenitive, lessening, licking, loosening, mastery, mitigating, mitigative, mollifying, moral victory, numbing, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, pain-killing, palliative, picnic, purgative, pushover, quietus, reducing, relaxing, relieving, remedial, ruin, runaway victory, smash, softening, soothing, subdual, subjugation, success, tempering, thrashing, total victory, trimming, triumph, trouncing, undoing, vanquishment, victory, walkaway, walkover, whipping, win, winning, winning streak
  

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