Subjugate

Definition: Subjugate

Subjugate

Verb

1. Put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land".

2. Make subservient; force to submit.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "subjugate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Note: Subjugate \Sub"ju*gate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Subjugated; present participle verb or noun Subjugating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Subjugate

Restraint

Arrest; take up, take charge of, take into custody; take prisoner, take captive, make prisoner, make captive; captivate; lead captive, lead into captivity; send to prison, commit to prison; commit; give in charge, give in custody; subjugate.

Subjection

Break in, tame; subject, subjugate; master; tread down, tread under foot; weigh down; drag at one's chariot wheels; reduce to subjection, reduce to slavery; enthrall, inthrall, bethrall; enslave, lead captive; take into custody; (restrain); rule; drive into a corner, hold at the sword's point; keep under; hold in bondage, hold in leading strings, hold in swaddling clothes.

Success

Settle, do for; break the neck of, break the back of; capsize, sink, shipwreck, drown, swamp; subdue; subjugate; (subject); reduce; make the enemy bite the dust; victimize, roll in the dust, trample under foot, put an extinguisher upon.

Crosswords: Subjugate

Books

• Bernadinism: How to Dominate Men and Subjugate Women (reference)

• Race, Religion & Racism: Perverting the Gospel to Subjugate a People (reference)

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Music

• Subjugate (reference)

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Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriation. (reference)

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In what way did Enjolras subjugate him?

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Business

The Nazi leadership attempted to remove or subjugate all non-German peoples in Germany by forced migration and, ultimately, genocide. (references)

Economic History

El Salvador

The first Spanish attempt to subjugate this area failed in 1524, when Pipil warriors forced Pedro de Alvarado to retreat. (references)

Human Rights

Kazakhstan

The court system's independence is compromised by legislative, administrative and constitutional arrangements that in practice subjugate the judiciary to the executive branch of government. (references)

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Albanian

vë nën kontroll, nënshtroj (enslave, master, reduce, subdue, subject, submit, subordinate, vanquish). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قهر (beat, compulsion, conquer, crush, defeat, defeating, force, get the better of, overbear, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overwhelm, subdual, subdue, subjugation, tame, vanquish), ‏خضع (bend, bow, compel, conquer, hew, knuckle under, kowtow, reclaim, reduce, steady, subdue, subject, submit, subordinate, succumb, throw in one's hand, undergo, wash, yield), ‏إستعبد (enslave, slave, yoke). (various references)

Bulgarian 

поробвам (enslave, enthral, thrall), покорявам (bring under, captivate, subdue, subject, vanquish, win). (various references)

Chinese 

征讨 (subjugated, Subjugating). (various references)

Czech

ujařmit (enslave), porobit (enslave), podmanit (overpower, subdue). (various references)

Dutch

onderwerpen (subdue, submit), knechten (subdue, submit). (various references)

Esperanto

submeti (subdue, submit), subigi (subdue). (various references)

Farsi 

منکوب کردن (Suppress), مطیع کردن (Reduce, Subdue, Subject), تحت انقیاددراوردن . (various references)

Finnish

saattaa valtansa alaiseksi (subdue, subject), kukistaa (overthrow, quell, subdue, suppress, vanquish), alistaa jotakin valtaansa (subdue). (various references)

French

soumettre (subdue, submit, to subject). (various references)

German

unterwerfen (bring under, conquer, subdue, subject, submit, to subject), bezwingen (beat, capture, conquer, defeat, down, fight down, master, outfight, overcome, overmaster, quell, subdue, submit, to conquer, to overmaster, to subjugate, vanquish). (various references)

Greek 

καθυποτάσσω, υποτάσσω (bring under, conquer, get under, grind down, subdue, subject, subject to), υποδουλώνω (enslave). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשעב�" (enslave, mortgage, subordinate), לעשוק (exploit, maltreat, maraud, oppress, subdue), לכבוש (conquer, occupy, press, take, tread down, vanquish), ל�"כ� יע (humble, overpower, overwhelm, quell, subdue, subject, subordinate). (various references)

Hungarian

leigáz (enslave, feudalize, oppress, overpower, subdue, subject, to bring to heels, to bring under, to conquer, to enslave, to subject, to vanquish), alávet (submit, to bring under, to subject, to submit, to vassal). (various references)

Indonesian

menggagahi (molest sexually, overpower), mengabdikan. (various references)

Italian

soggiogare (enslave, submit, to subject, yoke), schiavitù (servitude, slavery, subject, thrall). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

平ら�'る (to consume, to eat up, to put down, to subjugate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たいら�'る (to consume, to eat up, to put down, to subjugate). (various references)

Manx

quingaghey (yoke). (various references)

Pig Latin

ubjugatesay

Polish

podporządkować. (various references)

Portuguese

sujeitar (enthral, enthrall, obligate, overbear, overpower, pin, prevail over, subdue, subject, subordinate, tie, yoke), submeter (blitz, crush, give in, keep down, lay under, overmaster, submit, subordinate), subjugar (crush, overbear, overcome, overmaster, overpower, quell, rule, subdue, subject, suppress, tame, vanquish, yoke), vencer (bear down, clear away, defeat, lick, outdo, outrival, overcome, overmatch, overpass, overpower, subdue, surmount, triumph, vanquish, whop, win), dominar (come over, command, conquer, control, cover, dominate, domineer, enthral, enthrall, govern, have command of, lick, live out, lord, manage, master, outmatch, overbear, overcome, overmaster, overpass, overpower, quell, rein, rein in, repress, restrain, rule, subdue, subject, surmount, vanquish, wield), conquistar (acquire, attach, attract, beat, cob, conquer, subdue, win). (various references)

Romanian

supune (bend, bring under, crush, defeat, examine, keep under, overpower, present, propose, propound, reflect, subdue, vanquish, win), subjuga (bend, captivate, conquer, enslave, master, overmaster, subdue, subject, yoke), stãpâni (check, command, control, dominate, get under, govern, have, hold, hold in leash, keep in, manage, own, quell, rage, reign, restrain, ride, rule, subdue, sway, vanquish, wield), micşora (abate, abridge, attenuate, Bate, belittle, contract, cut, deaden, decrease, detract, dilute, dock, drop, dwarf, ease, knock down, lessen, lighten, lower, mellow, mitigate, narrow, palliate, pare, pare down, put down, rebate, reduce, remit, restrain, retrench, shorten, stop, subdue, weaken, whittle away), cuceri (bear, captivate, carry, catch, conquer, fetch, gain, seize, subdue, subject, take, vanquish, win), captiva (captivate, charm, engage, engross, ensnare, fascinate, win), atenua (abate, alleviate, attenuate, dilute, diminish, dull, extenuate, gloze, mellow, reduce, soften, subdue, tone down, water down), îngenunchea (bend, go on one's knees, knee, kneel, master, subdue), închina (dedicate to, inscribe, raise, subdue, submit, yield), încãleca (back, bestride, horse, stride, subdue, take horse). (various references)

Russian 

покорять (bend, enslave, reduce, subdue, vanquish), подчинять (subdue, subdues, subject, subordinate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

potčiniti (bend, master, subdue, subject, submit), pokoriti se (comply, knuckle under, truckle, yield), pokoravati se (listen, make an obeisance, toe). (various references)

Spanish

subyugar (control, govern, head up, hold down, overmaster, overpower, restrain, rule). (various references)

Swedish

underkuva (oppress, repress, subdue, subject). (various references)

Turkish

zaptetmek (bridle, capture, contain, govern, hold back, hold down, hold in, keep down, possess oneself of, reave, seize, stifle, suppress, swallow), yenmek (annihilate, bear down, bear the bell, beat, beat all hollow, best, break, carry away the bell, checkmate, circumvent, clobber, confound, conquer, cut out, defeat, discomfit, down, floor, get the better of, give a beating, knock out, land, lick, master, outbox, outclass, outdo, outgo, overpower, pip, prevail, skunk, slam, smash, surmount, swamp, thrash, trim, triumph, trounce, vanquish, wallop, wear down, whelm, whip, whop, win over, wipe the floor with smb., worst), maruz bırakmak (expose, subject), boyun eğdirmek (force to submit, overpower, subdue, subject). (various references)

Ukrainian

підкоряти (bend, conquer, oppress, subdue, subject), поневолювати (beslave, enfetter, enslave, enthral, enthrall, slave). (various references)

evinco, subacta, subdo, subigens, subiugabis, subiugaret, subiugasset, subiugati, subiugaverat, subiugaverunt, subiugavi, subiugavit, subiungo. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "subjugate": subjugated, subjugates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Subjugate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: subjagate, subjegate, subjigate, subjuate, subjugat. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: baguets.

-3 letters: august, baguet, beauts, jugate, sagbut, teguas.

-4 letters: abets, abuse, abuts, agues, baste, bates, beast, beats, beaus, beaut, begat, betas, butes, gates, getas, guest, jubas, jubes, jutes, saute, stage, tabes, tabus, tajes, tegua, tsuba, tubae, tubas, tubes, usage.

-5 letters: abet, abut, ages, ague, ates, bags, base, bast, bate, bats, beat, beau, begs, best.

+1 letter: subjugated, subjugates.