dragoon
noun
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Synonyms for dragoon
Synonyms: Verb
blackjack, coerce, compel, constrain, drive, force, impel, impress, make, muscle, obligate, oblige, press, pressure, sandbag
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she was dragooned into agreeing to the fraudulent schemeRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
The words were emblazoned beneath an image of the cannon on a battle flag flown at the Battle of Gonzalez where Mexican dragoons skirmished unsuccessfully with the Texian rebels to decide the matter. — Myke Cole, The New Republic, "The Sparta Fetish Is a Cultural Cancer," 1 Aug. 2019 The hat is said to have been picked up as a war trophy by a Dutch dragoon captain after the Battle of Waterloo, where a coalition of European armies defeated the French on June 18, 1815. — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, "Napoleon’s Hat, Dropped at Waterloo, Is Picked Up at Auction for $400,000," 18 June 2018 The two companies of U.S. Army dragoons that arrived eight months before Texas joined the union in 1846 followed Republic of Texas volunteers, the Mexican army and Spaniards who established the city in 1718. — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, "Celebration of S.A. military coming to a rejuvenated Fort Sam," 3 May 2018 The camp hands out small Confederate flags at town events and lays a wreath at the site of two monuments to the dragoons on the last Monday in April, when the state celebrates Confederate Memorial Day. — Washington Post, "The battle over our nation’s Confederate remnants," 12 Sep. 2017 Prattville Dragoons monument in Prattville, above, erected 1916, to honor unit that fought in the Battle of Shiloh. — AL.com, "A look at Confederate monuments in every Alabama county," 17 Aug. 2017 The weekend’s stars are the Virginia militia, British Dragoons and Redcoats—all armed and dressed accordingly. — Katie Jackson, Fox News, "6 Historic reenactments every American should see," 15 June 2017Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Even when earlier on three or more subgroups are doing entirely different, often intense things, the mood is controlled, involuntary, dragooned. — Alastair Macaulay, New York Times, "With Batsheva, Politics Inside and Outside the Joyce Theater," 11 July 2018 Now Dracaena fragrans, aka the corn plant, and spider plants are being dragooned into doing the job. — Joe Queenan, WSJ, "The Dark Secrets of America’s Millennial Plant Lovers," 26 July 2018 Many Syrians flinch at the idea of going back, fearful that they will be killed, forced into camps or dragooned into the army. — The Economist, "Syrian refugees could turn into the new Palestinians," 30 June 2018 The relatively small number of women who are fertile are dragooned as handmaids, child-bearing slaves for married couples. — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, "‘Handmaid’s Tale’ makes you work, but pays off as few shows ever could," 20 Apr. 2018 He's dragooned away from this life into a case investigating an insurance claim by a former Wehrmacht soldier who served in Greece during the war and may have been trafficking loot stolen from Jews being deported to Auschwitz. — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, "'Greeks Bearing Gifts' will be the last in the popular 'Bernie Gunther' series begun in Nazi Germany," 5 Apr. 2018 His sole opponent, Moussa Mustafa Moussa, was dragooned into service hours before the registration deadline to avoid the embarrassment of a one-man race. — The Economist, "Ahead of a farcical election, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi goes after the press," 8 Mar. 2018 Internet-of-things devices frequently have dismal security (which, apart from making them vulnerable to being dragooned into botnets, also makes them a gift to spies). — David Meyer, Fortune, "How Criminals Can Mine Cryptocurrency With Your Poorly-Secured Smart Devices," 1 Mar. 2018 At any given moment, they can be dragooned by a presidential tweet into yet another fight to protect Trump, his associates, and his business empire, from independent scrutiny. — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, "Joe Manchin Is Right: Washington Sucks," 2 Feb. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'dragoon.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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