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  • She subjugates her heart to her head.
    subjugates = forces into submission
  • None of 'em ever was subjugated to such supernatural tortures as I have been.  (source)
    subjugated = forced to submit
  • These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort.  (source)
    subjugation = the act of forcing others into submission
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  • Most of Disney's hidden messages dealt with religion, pagan myth, and stories of the subjugated goddess.†  (source)
    subjugated = forced into submission
  • It kept Richard Parker in partial subjugation.†  (source)
    subjugation = forced submission to another's dominance
    standard suffix: 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.
  • They were going to subjugate all of the Far East.†  (source)
    subjugate = force into submission
  • Strange as may be the historical account of how some king or emperor, having quarreled with another, collects an army, fights his enemy's army, gains a victory by killing three, five, or ten thousand men, and subjugates a kingdom and an entire nation of several millions, all the facts of history (as far as we know it) confirm the truth of the statement that the greater or lesser success of one army against another is the cause, or at least an essential indication, of an increase or decrease in the strength of the nation—even though it is unintelligible why the defeat of an army—a hundredth part of a nation—should oblige that whole nation to submit.†  (source)
    subjugates = forces into submission
  • "Assuming that Rafi will be there," she said, subjugating the issue of assimilation to the question of survival.†  (source)
    subjugating = forcing into submission
  • Everybody said it was so, from the porters who were forming their own hospital Local Defence Volunteers unit, to Churchill himself who conjured an image of the country subjugated and starving with only the Royal Navy still at large.†  (source)
    subjugated = forced into submission
  • A word from her readings popped into her head: subjugation.†  (source)
    subjugation = forced submission to another's dominance
  • It will, I think, be easy now that we have such a high-ranking official under our control, to subjugate the others, and then they can all work together to bring Scrimgeour down.†  (source)
    subjugate = force into submission
  • No city has had that domination which sometimes derides those whom it subjugates.†  (source)
    subjugates = forces into submission
  • 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.†  (source)
    subjugated = forced into submission
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