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
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
O subduer of foes, having been thus addressed by Dhritarashtra's intelligent son, Karna ordered all the necessaries for the excursion.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 2 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
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
