Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of.
Hold within limits and control.
To destroy somebody's confidence or happiness; to humiliate.
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Examples for "subdue "
Examples for "subdue "
1 The family managed to subdue the criminal until the local police arrived.
2 In olden times they created pain; now they strive to subdue it.
3 The Moors in Africa revolted, and Belisarius next went to subdue them.
4 And the way to triumph over them is to subdue the men.
5 But it was a pang which she could readily control and subdue .
1 For they crucify the flesh for the good of their own souls.
2 The Caesars tried to crucify me, but they only got one eye.
3 Dost thou not know That I have power enough to crucify thee?
4 Do your worst, Bram, I'll never crucify truth to save my life.
5 Your parents will crucify me.' He shone his torch into the hole.
1 Paine did not hesitate to mortify both these failings in his fellow-men.
2 Though I showed nothing of it, it served only to mortify me.
3 She looked around her with disdainful eyes, eager to mortify the painter.
4 Now, I do not ask you to restrain and mortify these things.
5 She'd like to know what there was about her to mortify anybody?
6 Making this public would just mortify his mother and embarrass the women.
7 I shall mortify him; but that is a trifle compared with actual misery.
8 We are to mortify the flesh and thwart the carnal mind.
9 But she passed the matter over in silence, not caring to mortify him.
10 If you mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.
11 The effect of this misfortune was to mortify and infuriate them.
12 His application was received coldly, and in a way to mortify him exceedingly.
13 Such was the man who was to mortify the pride of Fitzgerald Fletcher.
14 And to mortify the wife would be to act as a heartless scoundrel.
15 I am afraid, but it is right to mortify the spirit.
16 They will rob me of the very qualities that mortify them.
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