subjugate
verb (used with object)
to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
have subjugated
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present perfectof subjugate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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These stratifications keep Gilead’s women occupied with their own alliances and enmities; they do not rise against the men who have subjugated them.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 26, 2017
He would have subjugated Italy and attempted to destroy the Vatican, representing as it did a powerful competing entity.
From Time Magazine Archive
I should neither have subjugated the Pistoians, nor outraged the Florentines with so many injuries.
From The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Macedonia would not so readily have subjugated the Hellenes and the Persians if the great powers of the west, Rome and Carthage, had intervened at the right time.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher
In an inscription in the same valley, the oldest which we possess, his predecessor Snefru claims to have subjugated these regions.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker
