Subjugation

Definition: Subjugation

Subjugation

Noun

1. Forced submission to control by others.

2. The act of subjugating by cruelty.

3. The act of conquering.

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

Date "subjugation" was first used: 1373. (references)

Etymology: Subjugation \Sub`ju*ga"tion\, noun. [Compare to the French expression subjugation, Late Latin expression subjugatio.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Subjugation

Excitability

Submission; resignation; sufferance, supportance, endurance, longsufferance, forbearance; longanimity; fortitude; patience of Job, patience "on a monument", patience "sovereign o'er transmuted ill"; moderation; repression of feelings, subjugation of feeling; restraint.

Excitation

Noun: excitation of feeling; mental excitement; suscitation, galvanism, stimulation, piquance, piquancy, provocation, inspiration, calling forth, infection; animation, agitation, perturbation; subjugation, fascination, intoxication; enravishment; entrancement; pressure, tension, high pressure.

Failure

Repulse, rebuff, defeat, rout, overthrow, discomfiture; beating, drubbing; quietus, nonsuit, subjugation; checkmate, stalemate, fool's mate.

Subjection

Noun: subjection; dependence, dependency; subordination; thrall, thralldom, thraldom, enthrallment, subjugation, bondage, serfdom; feudalism, feudality; vassalage, villenage; slavery, enslavement, involuntary servitude; conquest.

Success

Advantage over; upper hand, whip hand; ascendancy, mastery; expugnation, conquest, victory, subdual; subjugation; (subjection).

Crosswords: Subjugation

French (subdual, subjugation).

Books

• Cappy Ricks: The Subjugation of Matt Peasley (reference)

• Chain Her by One Foot: The Subjugation of Native Women in Seventeenth-Century New France (reference)

• Fathers and children : Andrew Jackson and the subjugation of the American Indian (reference)

• Nietzsche and Wagner: A Lesson in Subjugation (reference)

• Subjectivity and Subjugation in Seventeenth-Century Drama and Prose : The Family Romance of French Classicism (reference)

  (more book examples)

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It was a scheme of subjugation.

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Economic History

South Africa

The establishment of these settlements had far-reaching social and political effects on the groups already settled in the area, leading to upheaval in these societies and the subjugation of their people. (references)

Greece

During the Greek civil war of 1946-49, the U.S. proclaimed the Truman Doctrine, promising assistance to governments resisting communist subjugation, and began a period of substantial financial and military aid. (references)

Somalia

The subjugation and occupation of the independent sultanates of Obbia and Mijertein, begun in 1925, were completed in 1927. In the late 1920s, Italian and Somali influence expanded into the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "subjugation": subjugation of feeling. Additional references.

Albanian

varësi (dependence, dependency, relation, subjection), nënshtrim (abidance, conformity, conquest, enslavement, humility, subdual, subjection, submission, subordination, yielding). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قهر (beat, compulsion, conquer, crush, defeat, defeating, force, get the better of, overbear, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overwhelm, subdual, subdue, subjugate, tame, vanquish), ‏إمتثال (accept smb.'s authority, conformity, obedience, submissiveness, subordination), ‏إنقياد (docility), ‏إستعباد (enslavement, prostration, servitude, slavery, subjection, subservience), ‏إذعان (acquiescence, compliance, deference, submission, submissiveness), ‏إخضاع (conquest, repression, servitude, subjection). (various references)

Bulgarian 

поробване (enslavement), покоряване (subjection), подчиняване (reduction, subdual, subjection, subordination), подчинение (conformity, duty, obedience, subdual, subjection, submission). (various references)

Czech

ujařmení (enslavement), poroba (enslavement). (various references)

Farsi 

مقهورسازی , مطیع سازی , انقیاد (Submission, Sufferance), اطاعت (Obedience, Submission). (various references)

French

subjugation (subdual), soumission (subjection, submission, submissiveness, submitting), assujettissement (obligatory subscription, subjection). (various references)

German

Unterwerfung (conquest, subjection, submission, subservientness), Unterjochung. (various references)

Greek 

υποδούλωση (enslavement). (various references)

Hebrew 

שעבו�" (bondage, enslavement, enthrallment, lien, mortgage, serfdom, slavery), כבוש (canned, capture, conquest, occupation, occupied, pickled, preserved, pressed), �"כ� ע�" (capitulation, humbleness, humility, obeisance, subjection, submission), � רצעות. (various references)

Hungarian

leigázás (conquest, enslavement, enthralment, oppression, subdual, subjection). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鎮圧 (suppression), 征服 (conquest, overcoming), 征伐 (conquest, overcoming), 克服 (conquest). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せいふく (chief and vice-chief, conquest, happiness, legitimacy, original and copy, overcoming, regulation dress, reposition, uniform), せいばつ (conquest, overcoming), せいとう (conquest, correct answer, due, due east, equitable, just, justifiable, lawful, legitimate, meticulous, orthodox, political party, porcelain manufacturing, proper, reasonable, refined sugar, right, sugar manufacture, sugar refining, traditional), �"くふく (conquest, restoration), へいてい (adjourning court, repression, suppression), とうばつ (faction or clique, secretly felling trees, suppression), ち�"あつ (suppression). (various references)

Pig Latin

ubjugationsay

Portuguese

sujeição (acquiesce, bondage, calaboose, liability, obedience, prison, serfdom, servitude, subdual, submission, subordination, subservience, thraldom, vassalage), subjugação, domínio pela força, ato de subjugar. (various references)

Romanian

subjugare (enslavement, subjection), îngenunchere. (various references)

Russian 

покорение (conquest, reduction, subdual, subjection), подчинение (conformation, conformity, dependence, subdual, subjection, subjections, submission, submissions, subordination, subservience, subserviency). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pokoravanje. (various references)

Spanish

subyugación. (various references)

Swedish

underordnande (subordinating, subordination), kuvande. (various references)

Turkish

boyun eğdirme (reduction). (various references)

Ukrainian

підкорення (conformation, conquest, subdual, subjection, submission, subservience). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự nô dịch hoá (enslavement), sự khuất phục (subdual), sự chinh phục (subdual, subjection). (various references)

subiectioni, subjugare. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "subjugation": subjugations. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Subjugation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: subjagation, subjucation, subjudgation, subugation. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: banjoist, bijugous, boasting, boatings, gunboats, jousting, outgains.

-4 letters: abusing, agonist, agoutis, antibug, autobus, autoing, bagnios, basting, bastion, boating, bonitas, bousing, busting, gabions, gitanos, gunboat, justing, nougats, obtains, ousting, outgain, outguns, outings, outsang, outsing, outsung, subjoin, subunit, tabuing, tousing, tubings.

-5 letters: agouti, august, ausubo, bagnio, banjos, basing, basion, bating, batons, bigots, bijous, bingos, biogas.

+1 letter: subjugations.