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单词 subjugate
释义

Definition of subjugate in English:

subjugate

verb ˈsʌbdʒʊɡeɪtˈsəbdʒəˌɡeɪt
[with object]
  • 1Bring under domination or control, especially by conquest.

    the invaders had soon subjugated most of the population
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is at this time that the idea of conquering a people and subjugating them became a viable model, rather than total extermination.
    • His brother Turanshah subjugated Nubia and conquered the Yemen in the 1170s.
    • One governor, Hassan Pasha, was in constant war with tribes, once he subjugated a tribe, another would immediately rebel against him.
    • Oppressors usually try to remove dignity when subjugating victims; the shaven heads of the prison camps did not hurt - they demeaned.
    • It's just that if one sees the rights of the foetus as taking priority then one is subjugating the right of the mother unfairly.
    • Perhaps Rosand's story, while exaggerated for dramatic effect, was something of a satire foretold: a dueller who opposed the war, a lover willingly subjugating his true feelings?
    • This was a crusading order that conquered the Baltic and subjugated the people of Brandenburg-Prussia.
    • The concern in Paris and Berlin was that Washington's bid to subjugate Iraq and seize control of its huge oil reserves cut directly across European interests throughout the region.
    • Abuse is designed to control and subjugate another person through fear, humiliation, and verbal put downs.
    • Three years and two days ago, troops came to Afghanistan to free a people who had been subjugated by a cruel and vicious oppressor.
    • For the most part, America is an abstaining superpower: it shows no real interest in conquering and subjugating the rest of the world, even though it can.
    • Sylvia Plath's diaries have shown she endured a relationship with Ted Hughes - one in which she subjugated herself and her talent for the greater good of him and his.
    • Either we defeat them and liberate their populations, or they will defeat us and subjugate ours.
    • Humiliation is a technique of deliberately subjugating a person or group by violating their dignity, and is often used as a political or military weapon.
    • Having for a long time been subjugated to foreign rule and control, the people of Taiwan have never really formed their own nation.
    • There is also peace where one element does not dominate so much as subjugates the rest of the society, and where any signs of dissension are nipped in the bud.
    • They subjugated women, destroyed centuries-old artefacts and killed dissenters.
    • The Idirans, on the other hand, conquer the species they considered inferior and subjugate them into their righteous religious empire.
    • It was designed to instil in young noblemen the qualities required to conquer new lands and subjugate their people on behalf of the king and the church.
    • Professor Davis's unorthodox methodology split historians over whether his estimates were plausible but they welcomed any attempt to fill a gap in the little-known story of Africans subjugating Europeans.
    Synonyms
    conquer, vanquish, defeat, crush, quell, quash, gain mastery over, gain ascendancy over, gain control of, bring under the yoke, bring to heel, bring someone to their knees, overcome, overpower, hegemonize
    enslave, tyrannize, oppress, repress, subdue, colonize, suppress
    tame, break, humble
    informal lick, clobber, hammer, wipe the floor with, walk all over
    1. 1.1subjugate someone/something to Make someone or something subordinate to.
      the new ruler firmly subjugated the Church to the state
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Democratization also may embolden formerly subjugated groups to lash out at their one-time oppressors.
      • Worse still, in their name, those seven Maori members are subjugating them to absolute insults.
      • They attempt to bulldoze into our minds the crudity of their religion: subjugating our faiths to suppress us.
      • To subjugate all paths to the proofs of Science is to neglect the irrational and inexplicable mysteries of Creation.
      • I'm very grateful to find others like yourself who have overcome and continue to combat these fear ridden lunatics that try to subjugate our society to their truly malevolent goals.
      • Within a generation, the spiritual authority was subjugated to the secular authority.
      • Nearly everyone forgot how talented Bather is because he subjugated his game to help the Blue Devils win 92 percent of the time his freshman and sophomore years.
      • In the end, however, it's up to me to decide if I will be a willing pupil at any given time, to decide if I have little enough belief in my own feelings to subjugate them to the ways of another.
      • But on many issues they have been just as ready to subjugate human rights to their political interests.
      • For four decades, Taiwanese rights and interests were subjugated to those of the new arrivals, many of whom harbored the hope of reuniting with China.
      • Counter subjugation means that one of the five elements subjugates the other opposite to the normal mutual subjugation order.
      • Nabokov's keys lead the reader away from truth and subjugate him to the authorial will, a technique that had been successfully tested by Gide a decade earlier.
      • Second, Gilman introduced the concept of ‘androcentricism’: the broad-based set of social practices, relationships, and institutions that systematically subjugated women to men.’
      • After a brief spell of glory in the 1920s and 1930s, the Babelsberg Studios near Berlin were subjugated to the Nazi propaganda machine.
      • But I believe the people in New York were not occupying other people, were not subjugating other people to siege and closures, were not building settlements.
      • For one thing, our constitutional assertion of citizen control of corporations is still there, as is much of the language in the state codes that formally subjugates corporations to us.
      • Sure, the Cartwrights are macho men of the land, but they're all about appreciating the natural beauty around them, not subjugating it to their whims and desires.
      • There is an unhealthy tendency to subjugate films to the dictates of raising public awareness.
      • Throughout the course, the emphasis is on the struggles of subjugated groups to gain access to and define a meaningful education.
      • A lack of empathy with republican ideals leads him to doubt the value of the desire for independence that impels subjugated peoples to seek an escape from empire.

Derivatives

  • subjugator

  • noun ˈsʌbdʒʊɡeɪtəˈsəbdʒəˌɡeɪdər
    • As Brant plodded behind his subjugator, he could hardly think of a time when he had felt this helpless.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She suddenly switched gears just as quickly as she turned Melanie from subjugator to prisoner.
      • The Iberian nation is Angola's former colonial subjugators; the country that shaped its people's history in an altogether violent and destructive manner.

Origin

Late Middle English: from late Latin subjugat- 'brought under a yoke', from the verb subjugare, based on jugum 'yoke'.

 
 

Definition of subjugate in US English:

subjugate

verbˈsəbdʒəˌɡeɪtˈsəbjəˌɡāt
[with object]
  • 1Bring under domination or control, especially by conquest.

    the invaders had soon subjugated most of the native population
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Abuse is designed to control and subjugate another person through fear, humiliation, and verbal put downs.
    • Perhaps Rosand's story, while exaggerated for dramatic effect, was something of a satire foretold: a dueller who opposed the war, a lover willingly subjugating his true feelings?
    • Professor Davis's unorthodox methodology split historians over whether his estimates were plausible but they welcomed any attempt to fill a gap in the little-known story of Africans subjugating Europeans.
    • His brother Turanshah subjugated Nubia and conquered the Yemen in the 1170s.
    • Having for a long time been subjugated to foreign rule and control, the people of Taiwan have never really formed their own nation.
    • It was designed to instil in young noblemen the qualities required to conquer new lands and subjugate their people on behalf of the king and the church.
    • There is also peace where one element does not dominate so much as subjugates the rest of the society, and where any signs of dissension are nipped in the bud.
    • It's just that if one sees the rights of the foetus as taking priority then one is subjugating the right of the mother unfairly.
    • Sylvia Plath's diaries have shown she endured a relationship with Ted Hughes - one in which she subjugated herself and her talent for the greater good of him and his.
    • This was a crusading order that conquered the Baltic and subjugated the people of Brandenburg-Prussia.
    • It is at this time that the idea of conquering a people and subjugating them became a viable model, rather than total extermination.
    • Three years and two days ago, troops came to Afghanistan to free a people who had been subjugated by a cruel and vicious oppressor.
    • The concern in Paris and Berlin was that Washington's bid to subjugate Iraq and seize control of its huge oil reserves cut directly across European interests throughout the region.
    • Humiliation is a technique of deliberately subjugating a person or group by violating their dignity, and is often used as a political or military weapon.
    • Either we defeat them and liberate their populations, or they will defeat us and subjugate ours.
    • The Idirans, on the other hand, conquer the species they considered inferior and subjugate them into their righteous religious empire.
    • Oppressors usually try to remove dignity when subjugating victims; the shaven heads of the prison camps did not hurt - they demeaned.
    • For the most part, America is an abstaining superpower: it shows no real interest in conquering and subjugating the rest of the world, even though it can.
    • One governor, Hassan Pasha, was in constant war with tribes, once he subjugated a tribe, another would immediately rebel against him.
    • They subjugated women, destroyed centuries-old artefacts and killed dissenters.
    Synonyms
    conquer, vanquish, defeat, crush, quell, quash, gain mastery over, gain ascendancy over, gain control of, bring under the yoke, bring to heel, bring someone to their knees, overcome, overpower, hegemonize
    1. 1.1subjugate someone/something to Make someone or something subordinate to.
      the new ruler firmly subjugated the Church to the state
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Democratization also may embolden formerly subjugated groups to lash out at their one-time oppressors.
      • Throughout the course, the emphasis is on the struggles of subjugated groups to gain access to and define a meaningful education.
      • I'm very grateful to find others like yourself who have overcome and continue to combat these fear ridden lunatics that try to subjugate our society to their truly malevolent goals.
      • Counter subjugation means that one of the five elements subjugates the other opposite to the normal mutual subjugation order.
      • In the end, however, it's up to me to decide if I will be a willing pupil at any given time, to decide if I have little enough belief in my own feelings to subjugate them to the ways of another.
      • To subjugate all paths to the proofs of Science is to neglect the irrational and inexplicable mysteries of Creation.
      • After a brief spell of glory in the 1920s and 1930s, the Babelsberg Studios near Berlin were subjugated to the Nazi propaganda machine.
      • There is an unhealthy tendency to subjugate films to the dictates of raising public awareness.
      • Worse still, in their name, those seven Maori members are subjugating them to absolute insults.
      • For four decades, Taiwanese rights and interests were subjugated to those of the new arrivals, many of whom harbored the hope of reuniting with China.
      • But I believe the people in New York were not occupying other people, were not subjugating other people to siege and closures, were not building settlements.
      • A lack of empathy with republican ideals leads him to doubt the value of the desire for independence that impels subjugated peoples to seek an escape from empire.
      • Within a generation, the spiritual authority was subjugated to the secular authority.
      • Sure, the Cartwrights are macho men of the land, but they're all about appreciating the natural beauty around them, not subjugating it to their whims and desires.
      • Nearly everyone forgot how talented Bather is because he subjugated his game to help the Blue Devils win 92 percent of the time his freshman and sophomore years.
      • Nabokov's keys lead the reader away from truth and subjugate him to the authorial will, a technique that had been successfully tested by Gide a decade earlier.
      • They attempt to bulldoze into our minds the crudity of their religion: subjugating our faiths to suppress us.
      • But on many issues they have been just as ready to subjugate human rights to their political interests.
      • For one thing, our constitutional assertion of citizen control of corporations is still there, as is much of the language in the state codes that formally subjugates corporations to us.
      • Second, Gilman introduced the concept of ‘androcentricism’: the broad-based set of social practices, relationships, and institutions that systematically subjugated women to men.’

Origin

Late Middle English: from late Latin subjugat- ‘brought under a yoke’, from the verb subjugare, based on jugum ‘yoke’.

 
 
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