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subjugate
/ˈsʌbd͡ʒəɡət/
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What does subjugate mean?
adjective
- Forced into submission; subjugated.
verb
- To forcibly impose obedience, servitude, or submission upon (a country, a people, etc.).
- To make (someone or something) subordinate to another person or thing; to subordinate.
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verb
- To tame (an animal); to domesticate.
- (figuratively, obsolete, rare) To put (one's neck or shoulders) under a metaphorical yoke.
noun
- (rare) A person forced into submission; a subject.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsʌbd͡ʒəɡət/
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To subjugate devastating disease is no longer a dream; the hope of abolishing poverty is not utopian.
The celebrated communities of antiquity were all founded in the midst of hostile nations, which they were obliged to subjugate before they could flourish in their place.
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But after an eight days' march he encountered a powerful army, which had been dispatched from Nineveh to levy tribute upon the whole world and subjugate it.
The strength of the human race has been its ability not merely to subjugate the forces of Nature, but to adapt itself to those it could not conquer.
We land and alter things, and build and rearrange, and hoist paper flags on pins, and subjugate populations, and confer all the blessings of civilization upon these lands.