Sample Sentences for
subjugate
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    She subjugates her heart to her head.
    subjugates = forces into submission
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    None of 'em ever was subjugated to such supernatural tortures as I have been.  (source)
    subjugated = forced to submit
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    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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    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)
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    M'Lord, there were Sardaukar with our forces in the subjugation of this Fremen nest.†  (source)
    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.
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    They were going to subjugate all of the Far East.†  (source)
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    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)
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    "Assuming that Rafi will be there," she said, subjugating the issue of assimilation to the question of survival.†  (source)
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    Women of the past were subjugated both as females and as tinking beings, which is sad because a great deal of very important experience was lost as a result.†  (source)
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    It is Diem's great desire to convert his country to Catholicism, and vital to that effort is the systematic subjugation of the nation's Buddhist majority.†  (source)
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    Finding more than Sue herself had suspected-love for Tommy, jealousy, selfishness, a need to subjugate him to her will on the matter of taking Carrie, disgust for Carrie herself, (she could take better care of herself she does look just like a GODDAM TOAD) hate for Miss Desjardin, hate for herself.†  (source)
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    No city has had that domination which sometimes derides those whom it subjugates.†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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