Fire
Fire verb - To cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force.
Subdue
Subdue verb - To achieve a victory over.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- While the mountain spirit is implied to be fond of Clan Byakko, who treat it with respect, it would take more than forty fire sages to forcibly subdue it... until they slipped, and they didn't just have a supervolcano eruption on their hands, but an angry supervolcano.
Source: Fan Fic / Embers - Nite-Owl and Silk Spectre take advantage of one of these to temporarily subdue a fire in Watchmen.
Source: Water Tower Down
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Subdue and Fire. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fire/subdue
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