SUBDUE

Definition:

1. [verb] put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
   Synonyms: repress, quash, keep down, subjugate, reduce
   
   
2. [verb] to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires"
   Synonyms: suppress, stamp down, inhibit, conquer, curb
   
   
3. [verb] hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh"
   Synonyms: mortify, cricify
   
   
4. [verb] get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness"
   Synonyms: overcome, get over, surmount, master
   
   
5. [verb] make subordinate, dependent, or subservient; "Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler"
   Synonyms: subordinate
   
   
6. [verb] correct by punishment or discipline
   Synonyms: tame, chasten
   
   

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Related Words:

• wink, blink, blink away
• stifle, dampen
• choke off, choke down, choke back
• hush, quieten, silence, still, shut up, hush up
• burke
• silence
• squelch, quell, quench
• smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repress
• mortify
• bulldog

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