Meaning
1 senses(rare)A person forced into submission; a subject.
Examples
13 sentencesThe empire subjugated the neighboring peoples.
The people were subjugated by a vast empire.
The hero demonstrated that a man could subjugate nature to his uses.
The supreme art of war is to subjugate the enemy without fighting.
They subjugate the meek.
Origin
The adjective is derived from Late Middle English subiugat(e), subjugat(e) (“made submissiThe adjective is derived from Late Middle English subiugat(e), subjugat(e) (“made submissive; obedient”), the past participle of subiugaten, subjugaten (“to conquer; to subdue”), from Latin subiugātus, subjugātus (“subjugated”), the perfect passive participle of subiugō, subjugō (“to make subject, subjugate”), from sub- (prefix meaning ‘under’) + iugō, jugō (“to join; to yoke”) (from iugum (“collar for a horse; yoke for cattle”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to tie together, join, yoke”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)). Doublet of yoke.
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Forms
plural: subjugates| Singular | subjugate |
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regular
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.