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
As long as Assyria continued to play the rôle of the subduer of nations, Ashur—the god of war par excellence—necessarily retained his position at the head of the Assyrian pantheon.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
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 Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
The son of Ashur-ris-ili, the powerful King, the subduer of foreign countries, he who has reduced all the lands of the Magian world.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous
All else i’ the world Time, the all subduer, merges in oblivion.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
