Definition of "subdual" [sub•du•al]

• An act of subduing; a successful defeat. (noun)

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• "Brawling/Carousing generates largely subdual damage, even though it also involves whacking people with barstools, tankards, beef bones, etc.."
• "He argued that it could *not* have been he who committed this most recent crime because, as the police well knew, had the women died during subdual that would not have diminished his ardor in the least."
• "It was hypothesized that the woman had resisted the rape and the attacker had killed her during her subdual."