Sample sentences for SUBJUGATE

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Definition

to force into submission

in various senses, including:

when a people are defeated in battle and oppressed — as in "The Romans subjugated most of Europe."
when something is treated as less important than something else — as in "subjugate the desires of the individual to the desires of the state," or "subjugate instinct to reason"

The essay discusses that era's subjugation of women in a male-dominated world.

subjugation = forced submission to another's dominance

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

The Taliban wants total subjugation to their religious law.

subjugation = forced submission to another's dominance

The region was never fully subjugated by the Romans.

subjugated = forced into submission

She subjugates her heart to her head.

subjugates = forces into submission

The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land.

subjugated = forced into submission

These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort.
Patrick Henry -- Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

subjugation = the act of forcing others into submission

None of 'em ever was subjugated to such supernatural tortures as I have been.
O. Henry -- The Ransom of Red Chief

subjugated = forced to submit

It was mournful, indeed, to witness the subjugation of that vigorous spirit to a corporeal infirmity.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

The elves controlled them and used them to subjugate humans.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
But the moral issue of the subjugation of women isn't frivolous today any more than slavery was in the 1790s.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky

All subjugated to the will of all.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
But when they are done fighting, Sounis, Eddis, and Attolia must be united to fight the winner or we will be subjugated as we never were before.
Megan Whalen Turner -- The Thief
It kept Richard Parker in partial subjugation.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi

His growing helplessness kept her in subjugation; she tenderly nursed him.
John Hersey -- Hiroshima

The bold and reckless young blood of ten-years back was subjugated and was turned into a torpid, submissive, middle-aged, stout gentleman.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
Now that he did, it was a startling thing, a dark catalog of subjugation and struggle.
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun

Or even subjugation, like most rapes.
James Patterson -- 1st to Die

But Fletcher was saying that the most powerful ideas had been subjugated... because they jeopardized the existence of the Orthodox Church.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
Soon the Father, subjugated by love and sleep, lay still.
Homer -- The Iliad
In their eyes, they had been subjugated by the old Crackers, and now they were subjugated again by people who were not even born there.
Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'

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