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subjugate

[ suhb-juh-geyt ]

verb (used with object)

, sub·ju·gat·ed, sub·ju·gat·ing.
  1. to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.

    Synonyms: overpower, reduce, vanquish, overcome

  2. to make submissive or subservient; enslave.

    Synonyms: overpower, reduce, vanquish, overcome



subjugate

/ ˈsʌbdʒʊˌɡeɪt; ˈsʌbdʒəɡəbəl /

verb

  1. to bring into subjection
  2. to make subservient or submissive
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌsubjuˈgation, noun
  • subjugable, adjective
  • ˈsubjuˌgator, noun
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Other Words From

  • sub·ju·ga·ble [suhb, -j, uh, -g, uh, -b, uh, l], adjective
  • subju·gation noun
  • subju·gator noun
  • non·subju·ga·ble adjective
  • self-subju·gating adjective
  • un·subju·gated adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of subjugate1

1400–50; late Middle English < Late Latin subjugātus, past participle of subjugāre to subjugate, equivalent to sub- sub- + jug ( um ) yoke 1 + -ātus -ate 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of subjugate1

C15: from Late Latin subjugāre to subdue, from Latin sub- + jugum yoke
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Example Sentences

The attack this week was deliberately coordinated to disrupt and violently subjugate the Congress.

Nature is still here, but it is often subjugated and ignored.

They struggled with feeling like a foreigner in their marital village, and often felt isolated, abandoned and that their voice was subjugated.

The country’s modern history has been shaped by a desire to reverse what in China is known as the “century of humiliation” — when the proud and previously powerful nation was subjugated by Western powers, Russia and Japan before the 1940s.

From Ozy

It does not help anyone to have a situation where there’s a whole generation of a workforce that feels so subjugated by their lack of access to clean water.

From Fortune

They see collusion and deception and they say Ankara is determined to subjugate them.

It was not an act of genocide, but it was the largest and most enduring program devised by man to subjugate a race.

Fashion can summon the strange, can subjugate the body and render it alien just as readily as it can highlight every curve.

The whole world is in my hand and I will conquer and subjugate the world.

France could not hope to subjugate Spain; England could never possibly conquer France.

Every religion, in its origin, was a restraint invented by legislators who wished to subjugate the minds of the common people.

An attempt to subjugate these fierce tribes made by Pedro de Andia in 1538, failed.

But she had absolutely nothing to subjugate except poor little Fairbridge.

The conquering immigrant peoples subjugate the native races or crowd them back.

Cleopatra eagerly repeated, and the desire awoke to subjugate this man who had so confidently boasted of his power of resistance.

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