subdue
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Subdue the nastiness, hide the labor, ward off the darkness?
From Slate • Sep. 28, 2012
Subdue your pride, which, as Aeschylus says, 'is the son of happiness and devours his father.'
From Time Magazine Archive
Even before Alberto-Culver finished developing its Subdue dandruff shampoo, the admen had filmed the TV commercials.
From Time Magazine Archive
Washoe canaries on the Geiger Grade Subdue the singing of their cavalcade, And, wiping with their ears the tears unshed, Grieve for their family's unlucky head.
From Black Beetles in Amber by Bierce, Ambrose
O let not Superstition's nightly goblins Subdue thy clear bright spirit!
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
Vocabulary lists containing subdue
Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I A Woman?" (1863)
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100 SAT words Beginning with "S"
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"Common Sense," Vocabulary from the pamphlet
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