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- What does the term subjugate mean?
- What is an example of subjugate?
- What does it mean to subjugate yourself?
- How do you subjugate someone?
- Can someone be subjugated?
- Which of the following words most nearly means subjugate?
- What is tyrannize?
- What does overly submissive mean?
- What does the word unutterably mean?
- Is slavery a subjugation?
- What does repressed mean?
- What is the term browbeat mean?
What does the term subjugate mean?
Definition of subjugate
transitive verb. 1 : to bring under control and governance as a subject : conquer. 2 : to make submissive : subdue.
What is an example of subjugate?
See word origin. Frequency: To subjugate is to bring something or someone under your control and to force submission or compliance. When a military force takes over a smaller country and makes that country bend to its will, this is an example of subjugate.
What does it mean to subjugate yourself?
subjugate verb [T] (CONTROL)
to treat yourself, your wishes, or your beliefs as being less important than other people or their wishes or beliefs: She subjugated herself to her mother's needs.
How do you subjugate someone?
To subjugate is to repress someone, or to make them subservient to you. In subjugate you see the word subject. In this word, it's not talking about the subject of a sentence, rather it's talking about the kind of subjects that Kings have serving them. Subjugate is to reduce someone's status to that of a subject.
Can someone be subjugated?
Definition of 'subjugate'
If someone subjugates a group of people, they take complete control of them, especially by defeating them in a war.
Which of the following words most nearly means subjugate?
1, 2 overcome, vanquish, reduce, overpower.
What is tyrannize?
Definition of tyrannize
intransitive verb. : to exercise arbitrary oppressive power or severity some ways the living tyrannize over the dying— Thomas Powers. transitive verb. : to treat tyrannically : oppress a regime that tyrannizes its citizens.
What does overly submissive mean?
showing an excessively deferential manner. meek, spiritless. evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant. cringing, groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormy. totally submissive.
What does the word unutterably mean?
Definition of unutterable
: being beyond the powers of description : inexpressible an unutterable tragedy.
Is slavery a subjugation?
As nouns the difference between subjugation and slavery
is that subjugation is the act of subjugating while slavery is an institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
What does repressed mean?
transitive verb. 1a : to check by or as if by pressure : curb injustice was repressed. b : to put down by force : subdue repress a disturbance. 2a : to hold in by self-control repressed a laugh. b : to prevent the natural or normal expression, activity, or development of repressed her anger.
What is the term browbeat mean?
Definition of browbeat
transitive verb. : to intimidate or disconcert by a stern manner or arrogant speech : bully likes to browbeat the waitstaff.
