Subjugate

Quick meaning: Subjugate is an adjective meaning Forced into submission; subjugated.

Meaning

Forced into submission; subjugated.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Word Forms

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

Synonyms for subjugate

Depending on context, synonyms include enthrall, subdue, underyoke, vanquish, subject, reduce.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include subdue, subject, repress, quash, reduce, enslave.

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