subdue
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
put down by force or intimidation
The government quashes any attempt of an uprising
Types & categories
- crush hypernym
Related & opposite
- repression derivation
- subduer derivation
- repression derivation
- inhibitory derivation
Sense 2 verb
to put down by force or authority
suppress a nascent uprising
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- conquest derivation
- forbiddance derivation
- inhibition derivation
- crushing derivation
- curtailment derivation
- suppressor derivation
- conqueror derivation
- subduer derivation
- suppressor derivation
- suppressive derivation
Sense 3 verb
hold within limits and control
subdue one's appetites
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- mortification derivation
- desist entails
Sense 4 verb
get on top of; deal with successfully
He overcame his shyness
Types & categories
Sense 5 verb
make subordinate, dependent, or subservient
Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler
Types & categories
- lour hypernym
Related & opposite
- mastery derivation
- subordinate derivation
Sense 6 verb
correct by punishment or discipline
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | repression |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | subduer |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | repression |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | inhibitory |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | crush |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | conquest |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | forbiddance |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | inhibition |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | crushing |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | curtailment |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | suppressor |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | conqueror |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | subduer |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | suppressor |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | suppressive |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | curb |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | blink away |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | dampen |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | choke off |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | silence |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | burke |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | silence |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | squelch |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | stifle |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | mortification |
| 3 | entails | Related & opposite | desist |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | curb |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | mortify |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | beat |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | bulldog |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | mastery |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | subordinate |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | lour |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |