dragoon
noun
(especially formerly) a European cavalryman of a heavily armed troop.
dragooned
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past participleof dragoon.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof dragoon.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
dragoonnoun(especially formerly) a European cavalryman of a heavily armed troop.
Example Sentences
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Some of these foreign workers volunteered; but many, like Leo, were dragooned and forced to go to Germany.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
Countries cannot be "dragooned" into joining a coalition aimed at protecting potential peace in Ukraine, Cabinet Office Minister Pat McFadden has said.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2025
As was also the case with Tom Stoppard’s Broadway hit “Leopoldstadt,” I sometimes felt in “Otto Frank” that the names of the camps and the litanies of loss were being dragooned into dramatic service illegitimately.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
‘Kagemusha’ A condemned criminal in feudal Japan is dragooned into posing as an ailing clan leader whom he somewhat resembles in Akira Kurosawa’s epic 1980 historical drama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2022
Rutherford dragooned the ever-faithful Chadwick into the search for the elusive neutron.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
