subordinating
suh bawr duh nay ting
- v rank or order as less important or consider of less value
- v make subordinate, dependent, or subservient
- a serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause
`when' in `I will come when I can' is a subordinating conjunction
- Was it Sorkin subordinating the needs of drama to get out a message? Sure, but post-disaster charitable feelings aside, it's not as though he's never done that before.
- On becoming a Franciscan, Emmett McLoughlin had taken vows subordinating his own will to the wisdom and spiritual judgment of his Superior.
- Now a President in the aftermath of a landslide seems intent upon further subordinating it and establishing the White House ever more firmly as the center of federal power.