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subjugate

UK/ˈsʌbd͡ʒʊɡət/US/ˈsʌbd͡ʒəɡət/
verbC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,210 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: subjugated, subjugating, subjugates

To subjugate is to bring a people under your complete control. Subjugate a whole province.

It means more than defeating, since the control continues afterwards. The Latin behind it is passing under a yoke, which was a real ritual of humiliation.

Definitions of subjugate

  1. 1verbsubjugateTo bring a people under your complete control.C1

    “It took forty years to subjugate the whole of the north.”

subjugate is a conquering.

Where it comes from

Latin subiugare means to bring under the yoke, from sub plus iugum, a yoke.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *yewg- — to tie together, join, yoke

  2. Latin

    subiugātus

  3. Middle English

    subiugat

  4. English, today

    subjugate

Built from

  • subjugat · Middle English — made submissive; obedient
  • subjugaten · Middle English — to conquer; to subdue
  • subjugātus · Latin — subjugated
  • subjugō · Latin — to make subject, subjugate

The is derived from Late Middle English subiugat, subjugat (“made submissive; obedient”), the of subiugaten, subjugaten (“to conquer; to subdue”), from Latin subiugātus, subjugātus (“subjugated”), the participle of subiugō, subjugō (“to make subject, subjugate”), from sub- + iugō, jugō (“to join; to yoke”) (from iugum (“collar for a horse; yoke for cattle”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European yewg- (“to tie together, join, yoke”)) + -ō). a doublet of yoke. The is derived from the adjective.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

subjugate in the wild

  • The battle was the culmination of the first attempt by Persia under King Darius I to subjugate Greece.

    Battle of Marathon

  • Once the Ionian revolt was finally crushed by the Persian victory at the Battle of Lade in 494 BC, Darius began making plans to subjugate Greece.

    Battle of Marathon

  • The Sassanids then went on to subjugate many of the western portions of the declining Kushan Empire.

    3rd century

  • According to the Grand Grimoire, he has the power to subjugate all women and girls, and to do with them whatever he wishes.

    Satanachia

  • The First Battle of Solskjel (Slaget ved Solskjel) was the first engagement in Harald Fairhair's attempt to subjugate western Norway to his rule.

    First battle of Solskjel

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.