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subduingnoun the act or process of bringing someone or something under one's controlthe subduing of the wild horse was accomplished by a method reputedly used by Plains Indians conquest, dominating, domination, overpowering, subjecting, subjection, subjugating, subjugation, vanquishing triumph, victory, win, winningbeating, defeat, drubbing, licking, shellacking, trimming, trouncing, whippingenslavementtakeover emancipation, enfranchisement, freeing, liberation, manumission, release subduingverbpresent participle of subdueto achieve a victory oversubdued her fear of the dark by joining a club for spelunkers beating, besting, conquering, defeating, dispatching, doing down(British), getting, getting around, licking, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), skunking, stopping, surmounting, taking, trimming, triumphing (over), upending, winning (against), worsting sweepingedging (out), nosing out, pipping(British)annihilating, blowing away, blowing out, bombing, breaking, burying, clobbering, creaming, crushing, drubbing, finishing, flattening, overwhelming, routing, shellacking, skinning, slaughtering, smoking(slang), snowing under, thrashing, trouncing, upsetting, walloping, waxing(slang), whippingcapping, excelling, flourishing, scoring, succeedingknocking off, knocking over, overpowering, overthrowing, subjugating, unseating, vanquishingacing (out), bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, excelling, outdistancing, outdoing, outfighting, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, transcending getting the better of, knocking for a loop losing (to) falling, giving up, going down, going undercollapsing, failing, flopping, flunking, folding, washing out to bring under one's control by force of armssubdued the rebels and sent their leaders to the gallows conquering, dominating, overpowering, pacifying, subjecting, subjugating, subordinating, vanquishing annihilating, beating, clobbering, crushing, defeating, drubbing, licking, mowing (down), overcoming, prevailing (over), reducing, routing, skunking, smashing, thrashing, triumphing (over), trouncing, walloping, whippingenslavingbreaking, clamping down (on), cracking down (on), putting down, quashing, quelling, repressing, silencing, smothering, snuffing (out), squashing, squelching, suppressing discharging, emancipating, enfranchising, freeing, liberating, manumitting, releasing, springing, unbinding, uncaging, unchaining, unfettering to put a stop to (something) by the use of forcelabored through the night to subdue the river's rising waters by building a wall of sandbags around their property clamping down (on), cracking down (on), crushing, putting down, quashing, quelling, repressing, silencing, slapping down, snuffing (out), squashing, squelching, suppressing dousing(also dowsing), extinguishing, putting out, quenchingsmothering, stifling, strangling, throttlingannihilating, decimating, demolishing, desolating, destroying, devastating, nuking, rubbing out, ruining, smashing, wasting, wreckingexterminating, obliterating, wiping outconquering, dominating, overcoming, overpowering, overwhelming, subjugating, vanquishing sitting on abetting, aiding, assisting, backing, helping, propping up, supportingfomenting, inciting, instigating, provoking, stirring, whipping (up)advancing, cultivating, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, nourishing, nurturing, promoting |