DRAGOON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dragoon mean? 

• DRAGOON (noun)
  The noun DRAGOON has 1 sense:

1. a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen

  Familiarity information: DRAGOON used as a noun is very rare.

• DRAGOON (verb)
  The verb DRAGOON has 2 senses:

1. compel by coercion, threats, or crude means

2. subjugate by imposing troops

  Familiarity information: DRAGOON used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAGOON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("dragoon" is a kind of...):

cavalryman; trooper (a soldier mounted on horseback)

Derivation:

dragoon (subjugate by imposing troops)

• DRAGOON (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they dragoon    ... he / she / it dragoons   
Past simple: dragooned   
Past participle: dragooned   
-ing form: dragooning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Compel by coercion, threats, or crude means

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

dragoon; railroad; sandbag

Context example:

They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone

Hypernyms (to "dragoon" is one way to...):

coerce; force; hale; pressure; squeeze (to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Subjugate by imposing troops

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "dragoon" is one way to...):

subject; subjugate (make subservient; force to submit or subdue)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

dragoon (a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen)

 Context examples 

Colonel of a damned dragoon regiment under the orders of my own younger brother.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)