subduing (root: subdue)

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subduing

Cadmean victory, KO, Pyrrhic victory, Waterloo, abating, allaying, alleviating, alleviative, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, ascendancy, assuaging, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, beating, benumbing, blunting, cathartic, championship, chastening, cleansing, collapse, conquering, conquest, crash, cushioning, dampening, damping, deadening, deathblow, debacle, defeat, demulcent, destruction, diminishing, downfall, drubbing, dulling, easing, easy victory, emollient, failure, fall, grand slam, hiding, knockout, lambasting, landslide, landslide victory, lathering, lenitive, lessening, licking, loosening, mastery, mitigating, mitigative, mollifying, moral victory, numbing, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, pain-killing, palliative, picnic, purgative, pushover, quietus, reducing, relaxing, relieving, remedial, ruin, runaway victory, smash, softening, soothing, subdual, subjugation, success, tempering, thrashing, total victory, trimming, triumph, trouncing, undoing, vanquishment, victory, walkaway, walkover, whipping, win, winning, winning streak

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