Subjugate
['sʌbdʒʊgeɪt] or ['sʌbdʒuɡet]
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
Typed by Bartholdi
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Conquer, vanquish, subdue, overcome, beat, overpower, overbear, overthrow, master, subject.
Typist: Osborn
Synonyms and Antonyms
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Inputed by Hahn
Definition
v.t. to bring under the yoke: to bring under power or dominion: to conquer.—ns. Subjugā′tion; Sub′jugātor.
Edited by Colin
Examples
- And it was his will to subjugate Matter to his own ends. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He, the man, could interpose a perfect, changeless, godlike medium between himself and the Matter he had to subjugate. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She wished his warm, expressionless beauty did not so fatally put a spell on her, compel her and subjugate her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- When, later on, the Persians began to subjugate the Greek cities of Asia Minor, they set up pro-Persian tyrants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To subjugate devastating disease is no longer a dream; the hope of abolishing poverty is not utopian. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The Mongol wave had washed over Poland, but had never subjugated it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Shishak seems also to have subjugated Philistia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They had long subjugated the Alani, and now they made the Ostrogoths, the east Goths, tributary. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Probably the Etruscans ruled over a subjugated Italian population, so reversing the state of affairs in Greece, in which the Aryans were uppermost. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Akbar subjugated all India as far as Berar, and his great-grandson Aurungzeb (1658-1707) was practically master of the entire peninsula. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One large division of Germans, instead of going to the Holy Land, attacked and subjugated the still pagan Wends east of the Elbe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Naturally the British imperialists wanted a subjugated Irish; naturally the English Liberals wanted a free, participating Irish. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There is only repetition possible, or the going apart of the two protagonists, or the subjugating of the one will to the other, or death. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The necessity for subjugating Spain after the Second Punic War involved a need for armies of a different type. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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