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Subdue vs Untameable - What's the difference?

subdue | untameable |

As a verb subdue

is to overcome, quieten, or bring under control.

As an adjective untameable is

incapable of being controlled, subdued, or tamed.

subdue

English

Verb

(subdu)
  • To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 2 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Bulgaria 0-3 England , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Gary Cahill, a target for Arsenal and Tottenham before the transfer window closed, put England ahead early on and Rooney was on target twice before the interval as the early hostility of the Bulgarian supporters was swiftly subdued .}}
  • To bring (a country) under control by force.

    • Synonyms

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    untameable

    English

    Alternative forms

    *untamable

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Incapable of being controlled, subdued, or tamed.
  • *1820 , , The Abbot , ch. 22,
  • *:"My lord," said Mary, "it seems to me that you fling on my unhappy and devoted head those evils, which, with far more justice, I may impute to your own turbulent, wild, and untameable dispositions."