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third-person singular simple present subjugates, present participle subjugating, simple past and past participle subjugated
(transitive) To forcibly impose obedience or servitude upon. quotations examples
From infancy through childhood's giddy maze, / Frovvard at ſchool, and fretful in his plays, / The puny tyrant burns to ſubjugate / The free republic of the vvhip-gig ſtate.
1782, William Cowper, “Hope”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], page 151
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In a subjugated position. quotations examples
Each nationalist struggle assumed the complexion of a Communist versus non-Communist conflict rather than one between a colonial imperium and a subjugate indigenous population intent on their independence.
2010, James M. Volo, A History of War Resistance in America, page 17