SUBJUGATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subjugation mean? 

• SUBJUGATION (noun)
  The noun SUBJUGATION has 3 senses:

1. forced submission to control by others

2. the act of subjugating by cruelty

3. the act of conquering

  Familiarity information: SUBJUGATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBJUGATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Forced submission to control by others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

subjection; subjugation

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

relationship (a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "subjugation"):

repression (a state of forcible subjugation)

oppression (the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority:)

captivity; enslavement (the state of being a slave)

bondage; slavery; thraldom; thrall; thralldom (the state of being under the control of another person)

bondage (the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power)

peonage (the condition of a peon)

confinement (the state of being confined)

Derivation:

subjugate (make subservient; force to submit or subdue)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of subjugating by cruelty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

oppression; subjugation

Context example:

the tyrant's oppression of the people

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

persecution (the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion))

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of conquering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conquering; conquest; subjection; subjugation

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

capture; gaining control; seizure (the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property)

Instance hyponyms:

Norman Conquest (the invasion and settlement of England by the Normans following the battle of Hastings (1066))

 Context examples 

It was mournful, indeed, to witness the subjugation of that vigorous spirit to a corporeal infirmity.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)