subjugate
verb (used with object)
to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
were subjugating
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past progressiveof subjugate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The common man never made head against the forces that were subjugating and degrading him.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The battle was going on all the time while the pioneer and his wife were subjugating the forest, breaking the soil, and gaining shelter and food for themselves and their children.
From Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" by William Worthington Fowler
