subordinate
adjective
placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
will subordinate
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future tenseof subordinate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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In many places, however, children expect to support their elderly parents and will subordinate their interests to that aim.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
It will subordinate paper schemes of distant amelioration to duties that will help right now.”
From Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy by David Grayson
The power of volition, that faculty which keeps the will subordinate to the judgment, seems totally weakened.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
It will certainly not abolish hate, but it will subordinate it altogether to love.
From First and Last Things by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
But future man will subordinate these lower powers to the higher.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler
