Subjugate

Word SUBJUGATE
Character 9
Hyphenation sub ju gate
Pronunciations /ˈsʌbdʒuɡeɪt/

Definitions and meanings of "Subjugate"

What do we mean by subjugate?

To bring under control, especially by military force; conquer. transitive verb

To make subordinate or subject to the dominion of something else. transitive verb

To bring under the yoke; subdue; conquer; compel to submit to the dominion or control of another; vanquish.

To make subservient; take or hold captive; bring under bondage, as the senses.

Synonyms Vanquish, Subdue, etc. See conquer.

To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another; to vanquish. transitive verb

To forcibly impose obedience or servitude. verb

Put down by force or intimidation verb

Make subservient; force to submit or subdue verb

To forcibly impose obedience or servitude upon.

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The word "subjugate" in example sentences

Never did yell or kick send his hot blood from heart to head deluging his sensitive brain with fiery currents, driving him into frenzy or blinding him with fear; but touches, soft and gentle as a woman's, caressing words, and oats given from the open palm, and unfailing kindness, were the means I used to 'subjugate' him. ❋ William Patten (1902)

Now you are saying that your answer was only directed towards the "subjugate" part. ❋ Concerned In Denver (2010)

"subjugate" in the debate over and over again, by people from people all along the political spectrum. ❋ Yankee47 (2010)

In a sharply worded letter to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, Beckstrom complains of inadequate funding and cites efforts by the National Security Agency to "subjugate" the NCSC to its control. first obtained by Wired), Beckstrom writes that "NSA effectively controls DHS cyber efforts through detailees, technology insertions, and the proposed move of NPPD [ ❋ Unknown (2009)

There is also the Skull King, once an elder of Calypsos, who is now looking to take over the city and subjugate its people. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Talking about how all jews are moneygrubbing thieves or how all muslims are violent with the intent to subjugate more dhimmis should not be protected speech. ❋ Unknown (2009)

From 1816, General Aleksey Yermolov set out to subjugate the mountain peoples, building forts south of the Terek and founding the fortress city of Grozny “Menacing”. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)

Only the USA stoops so low as to use people's suffering for profit, denying them even elementary care unless they subjugate themselves under the yoke of insurance companies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Religiously-inspired political views also helped to subjugate Afro-Americans as well. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The point of leadership should be to promote those policies that do the most good for the most people; not to promote policies that would unduly burden or subjugate any one group. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The crowds protesting daily in the center of Athens have followed suit, calling the EU and IMF plan an act by "evil foreigners" to "subjugate the proud Greek people." ❋ Takis Michas (2011)

Your notion that self-control is paramount in sexual matters is comprehensible to the Elders of Sodom only as the neurosis of a disturbed individual whose sexual desire is bound to an abusive drive to subjugate, to rape men or women, children, animals or corpses. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

Like the socialists, they do not mince matters, but state boldly and plainly that they are fighting to subjugate the opposing class. ❋ Unknown (2010)

British, French and American intelligence services were quick to shower Koussa with guarantees of immunity to entice him to reveal everything he knows about the history of the regime that has managed to collectively subjugate two generations of the Libyan people and loot the country's wealth. ❋ Raghida Dergham (2011)

And surely, no-one means to subjugate women by something as simple as language? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Indeed, Obama's understandable skepticism of the neoconservative doctrine of externally mandated, top-down approaches to democratization through "regime change" turned into an excuse for further arming these regimes, which then use these instruments of repression to subjugate popular, indigenous, bottom-up struggles for democratization. ❋ Stephen Zunes (2011)

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