MEANING
To bring a person or group under domination.
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Words that belong together
- subjugate a population
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The conqueror subjugated the valley.
They sought to subjugate the remaining villages.
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Word forms
- Base
- subjugate
- Past tense
- subjugated
- Past participle
- subjugated
- Present participle
- subjugating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- subjugate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are subjugating
- Present perfect
- have/has subjugated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been subjugating
- Past
- subjugated
- Past continuous
- was/were subjugating
- Past perfect
- had subjugated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been subjugating
- Future
- will subjugate
- Future continuous
- will be subjugating
- Future perfect
- will have subjugated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been subjugating
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: subjugate; subjugates; subjugated; subjugated; subjugating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: subjugates.
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