subjugate
verb (used with object)
to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
subjugated
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past participleof subjugate.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 subjugate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
subjugateverb (used with object)to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
Example Sentences
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Kaunda's message was clear - black Africans must no longer be subjugated.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
The pavilions are scattered in seemingly haphazard fashion, in keeping with Mr. Govan’s conviction that visitors should follow their own curiosity and make their own connections without being subjugated to a hierarchy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
“I see my work as using health technologies that could preserve access to health for all people who have been subjugated to evil. That includes, at its most extreme, genocide,” Tabussam said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
Catanzaro Prosecutor Nicola Gratteri, one of Italy's best-known anti-Mafia investigators, said in a press conference that regional politicians and public administrators had been "subjugated" by mobsters during 2014-2020.
From Reuters ● Jun. 27, 2023
Over the course of the next 15 years, New Zealand was convulsed by the so-called Musket Wars, as musketless tribes either acquired muskets or were subjugated by tribes already armed with them.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
