subjugate
/ˈsʌbd͡ʒəɡət/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.47 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Forced into submission; subjugated.
noun
A person forced into submission; a subject.
verb
To forcibly impose obedience, servitude, or submission upon (a country, a people, etc.).
Transitive verb
verb
To make (someone or something) subordinate to another person or thing; to subordinate.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "For al their hye mynde they be now ſubiugate: […]"
- "After the Romans, the Saxons brought it [Lancashire] vnder their protection, and held it for a part of their Northumbrian Kingdome, till it vvas firſt made ſubiugate to the Inuaſion of the Danes, and then conquered by the victorious Normans, vvhoſe poſterities from thence are branched further into England."
- "[…] Could it be, that the whole earthly course of one so gentle, good, and self-denying, was subjugate to such a wretch as that!"
- "Her heart was so black and tangled in the teaching, her personal self was shut in prison, abolished, she was subjugate to a bad, destructive will."
- "Each nationalist struggle assumed the complexion of a Communist versus non-Communist conflict rather than one between a colonial imperium and a subjugate indigenous population intent on their independence."
- "[T]he home-loving Phillipino succumbed—the independent agent, under the influence of the "final cry," became the subjugate."
Etymology
The 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. The noun is derived from the adjective.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *yewg-, subiugat, subiugātus, subiugate
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsʌbd͡ʒəɡət/
- British English: /ˈsʌbd͡ʒʊɡət/
Usage
Inflected Forms
subjugates (plural)
subjugates (present, singular)
subjugating (participle, present)
subjugated (participle, past)
subjugated (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
subjugated (first person, past)
subjugatest (archaic, present)
subjugated (past, second person)
subjugatedst (archaic, past)
subjugateth (archaic, present)