subdue

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /səbˈdjuː/|/səbˈdʒuː/|/sʌb-/    美 /səbˈdu/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To overcome, quieten, or bring under control. transitive
    — And when their ſcattered armie is ſubdu’d: And you march on their ſlaughtered carkaſſes, Share equally the gold that bought their liues, And liue like Gentlmen in Perſea, […]
  2. To bring (a country) under control by force. transitive
    — In the run-up to his return to the White House next Monday, Mr. Trump has rattled the world, and America’s neighborhood in particular, with a list of objectives – buying Greenland, seizing the Panama Canal, making Canada the 51st state – that treat friendly nations as weak interlocutors and impediments to be subdued.

词形变化

subdues present,singular,third-person subduing participle,present subdued participle,past subdued past

词汇关系

衍生词
resubdue subduable subdual subduement subduer subduingly

词源

From Middle English subdewen, subduen, sodewen, from Old French souduire, from Latin subdūcō (“to draw away”), perhaps influenced by subdō (“to subdue, subject”).
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