subdue

Other forms of subdue

past tense

subdued·

present participle

subduing·

third person

subdues·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about subdue

What does subdue mean?

subdue means "put down by force or intimidation". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in subdue?

subdue has 2 syllables: sub-due. The stress falls on "due". In IPA it is /səbˈdu/.

What is another word for subdue?

Close synonyms include repress, quash, keep down, subjugate, reduce. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is subdue a common word?

subdue is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with subdue?

21 words rhyme with subdue. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.