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How to pronounce subjugation in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms conquering, conquest, subjection
Type of gaining control, capture, seizure
Type Words
Synonyms subjection
Type of relationship
Has types bondage, captivity, confinement, enslavement, thralldom, repression, slavery, thraldom, thrall, oppression, peonage
Derivation subjugate
Type Words
Synonyms oppression
Type of persecution

Examples of subjugation

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Females are as muscular as males, so there is no threat of physical subjugation.
From the charlotteobserver.com
A faction of the Kidans moved to the west, escaping subjugation by the Jurchens.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Education is about enlightenment and not the subjugation of one idea for another.
From the nzherald.co.nz
This intensified the European-South African subjugation of the indigenous people.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Americans have given up their individual sovereignty and freedom for subjugation.
From the sacbee.com
In this, the subjugation of foreign peoples and countries plays a prominent role.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Subjugation is so much more fun than conjugation, when you are four years old.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Many verses used to support the subjugation of women are taken out of context.
From the sltrib.com
Back then, it was a supine backwater awaiting subjugation by militarist Japan.
From the forbes.com
More examples
  • Forced submission to control by others
  • Oppression: the act of subjugating by cruelty; "the tyrant's oppression of the people"
  • Conquest: the act of conquering
  • (subjugate) repress: put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
  • (subjugate) make subservient; force to submit or subdue
  • (subjugated) reduced to submission; "subjugated peoples"
  • The act of subjugating; The state of being subjugated; forced control by others
  • (subjugate) To forcibly impose obedience or servitude
  • You allow others to control you - out of fear that you will be punished or abandoned if you disobey, or guilt that you hurt others by putting yourself first. ...