subjugating
present participle ofsubjugate
subjugate
verb[T]
formaluk/ˈsʌb.dʒə.ɡeɪt/us/ˈsʌb.dʒə.ɡeɪt/subjugateverb[T](DEFEAT)
todefeatpeopleor acountryandrulethem in a way thatallowsthem nofreedom
Ruling & governing
- administration
- affairs of state
- ascend
- ascend the throneidiom
- bipartisanship
- government-owned
- government-sponsored
- governmental
- governorate
- hard Brexitidiom
- oppression
- oppressive
- oppressively
- oppressiveness
- overgovern
- subjugate
- subjugation
- super-government
- the politburo
- tinpot
subjugateverb[T](CONTROL)
totreatyourself,yourwishes, oryourbeliefsas being lessimportantthan otherpeopleortheirwishesorbeliefs:
She subjugated herselftoher mother'sneeds.
Reporters must subjugatepersonalpoliticalconvictionstotheirprofessionalcommitmenttobalance.
Stop having or doing something
- abdicate
- abdication
- bail out
- bandh
- break withsomething
- butt out
- forfeitable
- forgo
- forsake
- forswear
- ghost
- give up
- give up the ghostidiom
- lay
- relinquish
- relinquishment
- self-denying
- self-sacrifice
- self-sacrificing
- throw
Examplesofsubjugating
subjugating
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The characteristic of the dogmatic miracle, on the other hand, consists in despoticallysubjugatingthe search of understanding for such an explanation, while seeking its effect precisely in this subjugation.
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They are in the business ofsubjugatingordinary working men and women.
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Negotiations on the new framework agreement cannot leave aside the issue of human rights,subjugatingeverything to commercial interests.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
It issubjugatingour peoples.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
They are also heavily imperialistic,subjugatingother levels with value-priced food.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This article laments the corrosive andsubjugatingritual of attending "sguwlz".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They plan onsubjugatinghumanity to harvest their mitochondria for food.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Viruses can not reproduce on their own, and instead propagate bysubjugatinga host cell to produce copies of themselves, thus producing the next generation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.That which you consider worthsubjugatingis (like) yourself.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As mayor, he was charged withsubjugatingthe indigenous groups in the region who opposed the distribution of communal lands.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.We can not ascend to a position of dominance over the voice,subjugatingits words to the meanings we desire to attribute to them.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In addition, it often requires that the therapist help the patient fight punitive, demanding, orsubjugatingparent modes or schemas.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Patently, the object of social ontology does not consist of fixed entities, which somehow exist behind historical and social phenomena directing andsubjugatingthem to any form of determinism.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.To share in thatsubjugatingpower, people create a false self, a pleasing-to-others image of themselves that springs from a powerful, deep-seated fear of being hurt, humiliated or abandoned.
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- milked
- milk farmer
- milk fat
- milk-fat
- milk float
- milk-float
- milking
- milking machine
- milking-machine
- proud moment
- proud owner
- proud tradition
- provability
- provable
- provably
- prove
- proved reserve
- proven
- proven ability
- provenance
- public school
- public-school
- public scrutiny
- public-sector
- public sector borrowing requirement