subduer

1. 1.

   someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion

   Synonymssurmounterovercomer

   Broaderrestrainer

Other forms of subduer

plural

subduers·

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 subduer

What does subduer mean?

subduer means "someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion".

How many syllables are in subduer?

subduer has 2 syllables: sub-duer. The stress falls on "sub".

What is another word for subduer?

Close synonyms include surmounter, overcomer. 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 subduer a common word?

subduer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.