SUBDUE

Pronunție (USA): (GB):

Traducere în limba română

subdue verb tranzitiv

1. a supune, a subjuga, a subordona, a cuceri;

to subdue the enemy fire a potoli/ a înăbuşi focul duşmanului.

2. a îmblânzi, a atenua, a uşura.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

It was always earnest; but when it was very earnest, as it was now, there was a thrill in it that quite subdued me.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

His softened voice announced that he was subdued; so I, in my turn, became calm.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Would he have deserved more, there can be no doubt that more would have been obtained, especially when that marriage had taken place, which would have given him the assistance of her conscience in subduing her first inclination, and brought them very often together.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

This desponding turn of mind, though it could not be communicated to Mrs. Dashwood, gave additional pain to them all in the parting, which shortly took place, and left an uncomfortable impression on Elinor's feelings especially, which required some trouble and time to subdue.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

So my mother suspected, at least, as she observed her by the low glimmer of the fire: too much scared by Miss Betsey, too uneasy in herself, and too subdued and bewildered altogether, to observe anything very clearly, or to know what to say.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Marianne was quite subdued.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

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