SUBJUGATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subjugate mean? 

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

1. put down by force or intimidation

2. make subservient; force to submit or subdue

  Familiarity information: SUBJUGATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBJUGATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they subjugate    ... he / she / it subjugates   
Past simple: subjugated   
Past participle: subjugated   
-ing form: subjugating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put down by force or intimidation

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

keep down; quash; reduce; repress; subdue; subjugate

Context example:

The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land

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

crush; oppress; suppress (come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make subservient; force to submit or subdue

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

subject; subjugate

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

dominate; master (have dominance or the power to defeat over)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "subjugate"):

dragoon (subjugate by imposing troops)

enslave (make a slave of; bring into servitude)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

subjugation (forced submission to control by others)

subjugator (a conqueror who defeats and enslaves)

 Context examples 

Mamma was an abject slave to their caprices, but Papa was not so easily subjugated, and occasionally afflicted his tender spouse by an attempt at paternal discipline with his obstreperous son.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)