resubduev.
/ˌriːsəbˈdjuː/, /ˌriːsəbˈdʒuː/, U.S. /ˌrisəbˈd(j)u/ transitive. To subdue (a people or place) again; to reconquer, re-subjugate.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Reconquerir, to resubdue, reconquer.
1731 J. P. Egmont Some Observ. on Present State of Ireland 23 It will be improbable they [sc. Papists] would be resubdued at all.
1844 W. C. Harris Highlands Ethiopia xcvi. 243/1 The tributary tribes rebel during each rainy season, only to be resubdued as soon as it is over.
1895 E. A. Grosvenor Constantinople I. iii. 68 When he [sc. Sultan Mohammed] died, almost all his European provinces and many in Asia had been resubdued.
1918 J. L. Barton Christian Approach to Islam i. iii. 35 The first year of Abu Bekr's caliphate was occupied in wars directed to resubduing the Arabs to Islam.
1971 Historia 20 496 (note) He [sc. Vespasian] had resubdued Judaea.
1995 Charlotte (N. Carolina) Observer (Nexis) 26 May 1 f King Edward I went across the border and resubdued the Scots.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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