subdue
verb (used with object)
to conquer and bring into subjection.
was subduing
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past progressiveof subdue.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Remember Jemel Roberson, the armed Illinois security guard who was subduing a gun-wielding assailant — and wearing a hat that said “SECURITY” — when police arrived?
From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2018
Then Guy began to talk of how day by day he was subduing words to rhyme and meter.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
The Forsyte in him was bent on the acquisition of a certain strain of blood, and he was subduing resolutely as yet the Dartie hankering for a flutter.
From To Let by John Galsworthy
Caesar was at this time engaged with many warlike nations, and was subduing them at great hazards.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
While Bonaparte was subduing Italy, the French under Moreau were contending, on the Rhine, with the Austrians under the Archduke Charles.
From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord
