subdue
verb (used with object)
to conquer and bring into subjection.
subduer
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a word derived from
subdue.
Example Sentences
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Once again the goal derived from a Barton corner which was eventually headed on for Mike Williamson – the earlier subduer of Carew – to nudge down into Carroll's path.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 22, 2010
—Why does she not execrate me?—O the triumphant subduer!
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 by Samuel Richardson
He had little sympathy with the national uprising against Napoleon, whom he looked on as the invincible subduer of the hated Revolution.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Kuno Francke
Man is heaven-born—not the thrall of circumstances, of necessity, but the victorious subduer thereof.'
From Obiter Dicta by Augustine Birrell
It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love,–this hunger of the heart,–as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.
From The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
