underbring

present singular third person underbrings · participle present underbringing · participle past underbrought · past underbrought

1. transitiveTo bring under subjection or control.

   How Reason reigning as a Queen should Anger underbring.

   1806, Horace Walpole, Thomas Park, A catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England, Scotland, ...

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   Thy dart, or sling, / Or strong bow-string, / That should vs wring, / And vnderbring, / Who every way, / Thee vexe and pay, / And beare the sway / By nigh

   1589, Ioseph Barnes, A Skeltonicall salutation, or condigne gratulation, and iust vexation of the Spanishe nation that in a bravado, spent many a crusado, in setting forth an armado England to invado.

   Who Chance, Change, Hopes, and Fears can underbring; / Who can obey, yet rule each Thing,

   1652, Edward Benlowes, Theophila, or, Loves sacrifice a divine poem

   Synonyms: curtail, restrain, behedge, guard, govern, smother, bind, chasten