1. subdue
Napoleon subdued much of Europe.
She’d be hard to subdue if she got mad.
We cannot subdue nature.
... a TASER gun to subdue this agitated immigrant and...
There is, perhaps, not one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as vanity.
For, in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery: but in fact, eleven men well armed will certainly subdue one single man in his shirt.