subjugate
verb (used with object)
to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
had subjugated
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past perfectof subjugate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Ali had the courage to stand up to a government that had subjugated African Americans for 400 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2016
Also he had subjugated many other regions, nearly all of New Spain, by 1521.
From History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII. by Philip Ainsworth Means
But in less than a hundred years this lion out of Arabia had subjugated Syria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Northern Africa, and the Spanish Peninsula.
From A Short History of France by Mary Platt Parmele
As the Horus or deified leader who had subjugated the older inhabitants of Egypt and founded the Pharaonic dynasties, it was right and fitting that he should be known by the name of his Ka.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
But this I have seen: all London mad, howling, exultant, savage drunk, because of the report that the Redcoats had subjugated this colony or that.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators by Elbert Hubbard
