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单词 subdue
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subdue
verb[T]
uk
/səbˈdʒuː/us
/səbˈduː/
toreducetheforceof something, or topreventsomething fromexistingordeveloping:
压制；制服；控制
Thefireburnedfor eighthoursbefore thefirecrewscould subdue it.大火烧了8个小时后，消防队才控制住了火势。
Hecriticizedtheschoolfortryingto subdueindividualexpression.他指责学校试图压制个性的自由表现。
tobringapersonorgroupundercontrolby usingforce:
Policesay they have arangeofmethodsavailableto them to subdue apersonduring aconfrontation.
Theiraimwas to subduesecurityguardsandcutthepaintingsfromtheirframes.
As onerebellionis subdued, theconditionsfor another areformingelsewhere.
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(Definition ofsubduefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
subdue
verb[T]
uk
/səbˈdʒuː/us
/səbˈduː/
toreducetheforceof something, or topreventsomething fromexistingordeveloping
压制；制服；控制
Thefireburnedfor eighthoursbefore thefirecrewscould subdue it.大火烧了8个小时后，消防队才控制住了火势。
Hecriticizedtheschoolfortryingto subdueindividualexpression.他指责学校试图压制个性的自由表现。

subdue| American Dictionary

subdue
verb[T]
us
/səbˈdu/
toreducetheforceof (someone or something):
She’d be hard to subdue if she gotmad.
(Definition ofsubduefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsubdue

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It is also a multicultural invention that conjures a cultural calendar tosubduethe irregularities of nature.
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The wish tosubduefinds no immediate point of attack.
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They gradually realized that their hostile policy had unwittingly contributed to the strengthening of an enemy they intended tosubdue.
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He wants to be able to say that his hopelessly subdued housewife lacks desires for freedoms that she has reason to value.
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As will be seen, the seniority of the four brothers had helped a great deal tosubduetheir potential conflicts.
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However, their effect is to increase desire rather thansubdueit.
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This must be more than a subdued animal welfarist point of view; it must be incorporated into our daily way of thinking about nonhuman animals.
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There is clearly a mutual acceptance tosubdueanarchical displays in favour of homogeneity.
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In a rather subdued decade, these books easily pass muster as the most luminous examples of scholarship in agrarian history.
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As the underbelly of things, materials may lie low but are never entirely subdued.
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This law does, and so emotions are subdued beneath the quiet, impersonal order that law imposes on the family and individual alike.
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I wilfully subdued any ideological opposition that might be welling up in my breast or agitating my brain.
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The audience is respectfully subdued, and the musicians dress in black.
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This limiting factor simply restricts the composer's imagination, having their creativity subdued by the technology it employs.
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The granulites form chains of hills and isolated hillocks amidst banded gneisses, which occur in a country of subdued topography.
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