Subjugate

/ˈsʌbd͡ʒʊɡət/ · adjective

Meaning

Forced into submission; subjugated..

Definitions by Sense

1. Forced into submission; subjugated.
2. (rare) A person forced into submission; a subject.
3. To forcibly impose obedience, servitude, or submission upon (a country, a people, etc.).
4. To make (someone or something) subordinate to another person or thing; to subordinate.
5. To tame (an animal); to domesticate.
6. (figurative, obsolete, rare) To put (one's neck or shoulders) under a metaphorical yoke.

Example Sentences

For al their hye mynde they be now ſubiugate: […]

After the Romans, the Saxons brought it [Lancashire] vnder their protection, and held it for a part of their Northumbrian Kingdome, till it vvas firſt made ſubiugate to the Inuaſion of the Danes, and then conquered by the victorious Normans, vvhoſe poſterities from thence are branched further into England.

[…] Could it be, that the whole earthly course of one so gentle, good, and self-denying, was subjugate to such a wretch as that!

Her heart was so black and tangled in the teaching, her personal self was shut in prison, abolished, she was subjugate to a bad, destructive will.

Each nationalist struggle assumed the complexion of a Communist versus non-Communist conflict rather than one between a colonial imperium and a subjugate indigenous population intent on their independence.

[T]he home-loving Phillipino succumbed—the independent agent, under the influence of the "final cry," became the subjugate.

O fav'rite Virgin, that haſt vvarm'd the Breaſt, / VVhoſe ſov'reign Dictates ſubjugate the Eaſt!

From infancy through childhood's giddy maze, / Frovvard at ſchool, and fretful in his plays, / The puny tyrant burns to ſubjugate / The free republic of the vvhip-gig ſtate.

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• subjugates
• subjugating
• subjugated
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• subjugate
• subjugatest
• subjugatedst
• subjugateth
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