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Definition: SUBDUING |
SUBDUINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Subdue |
Date "SUBDUING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: SUBDUING |
| English words defined with "SUBDUING": Debellation ♦ Overcoming ♦ Subdual. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SUBDUING": Piano. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SUBDUING": subdue. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Subduing of Mrs. Nag (1911) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Subduing the desert, Imperial Valley, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And hence subduing or cultivating the earth, and having dominion, we see are joined together. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Due to improvements in the quality and technical sophistication of components, their life spans are increasing and subduing. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience. |
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| "SUBDUING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 94.29% of the time. "SUBDUING" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 94.29% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.86% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.86% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 35 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SUBDUING": man-subduing. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
subduing | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SUBDUING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 制服 (subdue, subdued, uniform). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | subjuguant. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | bändigend. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubduingsay подчинять подчинение (subjugating). (various references) | ||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SUBDUING" (pronounced subduw"ing) |
| 4 | -d uw" i ng | Dewing, doing, overdoing, redoing, undoing. |
| 3 | -uw" i ng | accruing, bluing, booing, brewing, canoeing, chewing, cooing, debuting, eschewing, hewing, pursuing, queuing, renewing, reviewing, screwing, skewing, spewing, stewing, suing, tattooing, viewing, wooing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-g-i-n-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: busing, dingus, unguis. | |
-3 letters: binds, bunds, bungs, dings, dungs, guids, nidus, suing, unbid, using. | |
-4 letters: bids, bigs, bind, bins, buds, bugs, bund, bung, buns, dibs, digs, ding, dins, dubs, dugs, dung, duns, gibs, gids, gins, gnus, guid, guns, nibs, nubs, sign, sing, snib, snub, snug, sung. | |
-5 letters: bid, big, bin, bis, bud, bug, bun. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-g-i-n-s-u-u" | |
+1 letter: subducing. | |
+2 letters: burgundies, subducting. | |
+4 letters: outbuildings. | |
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