subdue
verb (used with object)
to conquer and bring into subjection.
unsubduable
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a word derived from
subdue.
Example Sentences
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Even Emerson, who boosted Carlyle's American reputation and mailed him his U.S. royalties, irked the grumpy Scot with his perennial good temper and "unsubduable placidity."
From Time Magazine Archive
Whereupon, and instantly, child that I was, I knew anger, the old, red, intolerant wrath, ever unrestrainable and unsubduable.
From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London
Some unsubduable word was on Pierre's lip, but a sudden voice from out the veil bade him be silent.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
Plants spring up from the earth, and grow, and blossom at your feet, and you look on with delight, and an unsubduable wonder, and in a heedless moment you ask what is life?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various
Ah yes, unsubduable granite, piercing far and wide into the heavens; yet in the clefts of it fountains, green, beautiful valleys with flowers!
From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter
