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subjugate to (someone or something)

1. To conquer someone according to the whims or dominion of someone else, especially through the use of military force. A noun or pronoun is used between "subjugate" and "to." Soldiers have spread throughout the country, subjugating the people to the self-proclaimed emperor.
2. To have something be subject to or under the dominion of something else. A noun or pronoun is used between "subjugate" and "to"; often used in passive constructions. Everyone's generosity and magnanimity are inevitably subjugated to their own demands of survival and self-preservation. You cannot subjugate people's religious faith to the demands of the government.
See also: subjugate, to
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subjugate someone to someone

to suppress someone in someone else's favor. The army sought to subjugate everyone to the king.
See also: subjugate, to
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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He called upon for the alliance of the oppressed subjugated nations and raise their voice in front of the international community, the U.S.A., Germany, the U.K., France, Canada, India, Israel and other civilised nations of the world to attain moral, political and diplomatic support for their common cause of independence from the theocratic fascist state of Pakistan.
In both instances there is a shift from the detached individual subject to a communal subject-a subject located in a subjugated or marginalized community existing at the intersection of multiple and complex social, ethnic, and power structures.
Fleming said, "I am not sure women are subjugated, but I am not a woman."
I am quite sure that all of this bloviating and occasional inaniloquent temperament must mean that he would be in favour of being subjugated by a poneros tulpa - either that or he could move somewhere.
Our future, like our past, is trading and cooperating flexibly with the wholeworld, putting the British people first, and not being subjugated as a cluster of disempowered euro-regions.
However, the 84-year-old yesterday spoke of a time "already marked by war" in which Adolf Hitler "had already subjugated" one country after another - including Poland, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France.
This writer has a list of peoples who have been killed, subjugated and expelled by Arabs in recent times without having a Nakba day.
"Egypt has been subjugated to an American political and military hegemony.
He fails to address those women who are subjugated and terrorised by threat of physical violence into wearing it.
No doubt Klaus Armstrong-Braun will only be satisfied when he has caused our traditional industries to be subjugated and closed down by Europe and the indigenous population subject to penury.
Do not think just because we are covered from head to toe, we are subjugated.
Despite a mutual cease-fire brokered in Egypt, Israel has subjugated over a million people to unfathomably deplorable living conditions.
we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire ...
Most educators have been subjugated to the MI theory and to the many issues that its implementation in the classroom brings.
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