释义 |
subserviate, v.|səbˈsɜːvɪeɪt| [irreg. f. subservient + -ate3.] trans. To make subservient or subordinate.
1893Cronwright-Schreiner in Farrelly Settlem. S. Africa (1900) 90 They would selfishly and foolishly subserviate the interests of the whole Colony to their own benighted wishes. 1906Churchill Coniston ii. iii, The time would come when the railroads..would exterminate the boss, or at least subserviate him. |