verb
definition
To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
definition
To bring (a country) under control by force.
Examples of subdue in a Sentence
Ali was obliged to subdue him, a task which he effected not without difficulty.
How, then, subdue the rivalry?
After this Suleiman set out to subdue his brother Masud Shah, at Angora, who was finally taken prisoner and treacherously murdered.
More than one of the Danish kings made serious attempts to subdue them.
It should attack and subdue the air, and never give the air an opportunity of attacking or subduing it.
They saw that it would never be in their power to subdue all England.
In self-defence Boleslaus was obliged to subdue them.
This failed to subdue the monks, whom the Archbishop of Volinsk described as "a band of soft-brained idiots led by a vainglorious hussar."
Pippin made several expeditions against the Saxons, but failed to subdue them.
Returning to his province Antony made several attempts to subdue the Parthians, without any decided success.
When Artabanus tried to subdue him his troops were defeated.
Alexander now contemplated sending Cesare to Romagna to subdue the turbulent local despots, and with the help of the French king carve a principality for himself out of those territories owing nominal allegiance to the pope.
Thus, appeared the grand-prince of Suzdal or Vladimir, of Tver,, of Ryazan and of Moscow - all irreconcilable rivals with little or no feeling of blood-relationship. The more ambitious and powerful among them aspired not to succeed but to subdue the others and to take possession of their territory, and the armed.
The efforts to subdue or restrain these marauders proved fruitless, till Augustus Cleveland won them by mild measures, and successfully made over the protection of the district to the very hill people who a few years before had been its scourge.
Sir George Ayscue, who had lately returned from the West Indies, whither he had been sent to subdue the Royalist party in Barbados, had a sharp encounter with a Dutch convoy while on his way up Channel to the Downs, and had captured several prizes.
France, he observed, needed the spur to practical energy which the Americans had at hand in the effort to subdue the difficulties placed in their way by nature.
Another negative cause may be found in the failure of an attempt or attempts to subdue the Thraceward towns.
Rameses in his brief reign of two years planned and began the great colonnaded hall of Karnak, proving that he was a man of great ideas, though probably too old to carry them out; this task he left to his son Seti I., who reigned one year with his father and on the latters death was ready at once to subdue the Bedouin Shasu, who had invaded Palestine and withheld all tribute.
The Lydians failed to subdue Lycia, but after the fall of the Lydian empire it was conquered by Harpagus the general of Cyrus, Xanthus or Arnna, the capital, being completely destroyed.
But Abdalmalik's first task was to subdue Zofar and his Qaisites at Kerkesia (Qarqisia), and the rest of the partisans of Mokhtar at Nisibis.
One of the reforms immediately undertaken was the disbanding of the Korean standing army, which led to an insurrection and an intermittent guerrilla warfare which, owing to the nature of the country, was not easy to subdue.
The struggle was accompanied by an armed outbreak in the exarchate of Ravenna (727), which Leo finally endeavoured to subdue by means of a large fleet.
After some trifling fighting Mangasha submitted, and Ras Makonnen despatched a force to subdue Beni Shangul, the chief of which gold country, Wad Tur el Guri, was showing signs of disaffection.
The attempts to subdue the Equatorial Provinces were but partly successful.
This was a good example of one of Gordon's marked characteristics, that, though a man of strong personal feelings, he was always prepared to subdue them for the public benefit.
One minute Dulce didn't hesitate to argue with him, and the next he could subdue her with a stern look.
All their thoughts are spent in empty declamations and forms of satire or anger, and these do not subdue affections.
The government has sent thousands of troops to subdue the rebellion in the enclave, which has no border with the rest of Angola.
Pippin determined to subdue the lagoons.
This failed to subdue the monks, whom the Archbishop of Volinsk described as " a band of soft-brained idiots led by a vainglorious hussar."
Early in 814 he was attacked by a fever which he sought to subdue by fasting; but pleurisy supervened, and after partaking of the communion, he died on the 28th of January 814, and on the same day his body was buried in the church of St Mary at Aix.
It was his desire to visit the Holy Sepulchre with a great host, and to subdue the enemies of the Cross.
On his mother's death in 1759 Marat set out on his travels, and spent two years at Bordeaux in the study of medicine, whence he moved to Paris, where he made use of his knowledge of his two favourite sciences, optics and electricity, to subdue an obstinate disease of the eyes.
Establish and set aright the scepters of kingdoms, subdue the nations, and pour forth peace upon the ends of the earth.
Therefore, they tried to find a way to temporarily subdue defilements.
They were unable, however, to subdue the fierce tribes in the north.
However the American way is to use massive force to subdue the enemy then attack the remnants.
You should avoid light liner shades as they will not play up your blue eyes, but will subdue their color instead.
Whether a building is located in an area that gets mass amounts of sunlight or a type of climate where hurricanes and other larger storms commonly occur, these shutters help to subdue different weather conditions.
These types of highlights can brighten up a dull complexion and may subdue the look of natural aging.
This combination will subdue the severity of the cut out, keeping your dress sophisticated and sensual without seeming overwhelming.
If you're desperate to subdue your look for a special occasion, the right kind of tattoo cover-ups can hide your tattoo quickly, affordably, and effectively.
On the show, the contestants are challenged to subdue their bad-boy sides and control themselves.
Where Xander used brute force to subdue an opponent, Darian was wily.
The hills inland were the domain of fighting tribes which the Persian government had never been able to subdue.
Repeated attempts were made by various European nations to subdue the pirates, and in 1816 the city was bombarded by a British squadron under Lord Exmouth, assisted by Dutch men-of-war, and the corsair fleet burned.
O'Neill, however, refused to put himself in the power of Sussex without a guarantee for his safety; and his claims in other respects were so exacting that Elizabeth consented to measures being taken to subdue him and to restore Brian.
Sir John Norris was accordingly ordered to Ireland with a considerable force to subdue him in 1595, but Tyrone succeeded in taking the Blackwater Fort and Sligo Castle before Norris was prepared; and he was thereupon proclaimed a traitor of Dundalk.
Accordingly, David is not to be condemned for failing to subdue the sensuality which is the chief stain on his character, but should rather be judged by his habitual recognition of a generous standard of conduct, by the undoubted purity and lofty justice of an administration which was never stained by selfish considerations or motives of personal rancour, 5 and finally by the calm 3 See Hebrew Religion, Messiah, Prophet.
Here Christian, bishop of Prussia, who had received from the Polish duke of Masovia a part of Kulmerland as a fief, had founded the knightly Order of Dobrzin, and was attempting with its aid to subdue the heathens of Prussia.