subjugate
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conquer, dominate, overpower, pacify, subdue, subject, subordinate, vanquish
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Walker suggested rather than destroying the Washington mural, school officials should simply cover it and require freshmen to take a course on slavery and California’s role in subjugating Native Americans. — Washington Post, "San Francisco to paint over debated George Washington mural," 4 July 2019 Positioning the United States behind the rest, Trump portrayed America as a humiliated, subjugated dupe—and gave a new, more dynamic rationale to a stale neocon agenda. — The New York Review of Books, "Stephen Wertheim," 2 Jan. 2019 Europe is subjugating an ever-growing share of its foreign policy and trade agendas to the appeasement of Turkey and Libya’s authoritarian leaders. — Amanda Taub, New York Times, "Trump’s Immigration Approach Isn’t New: Europe and Australia Went First," 18 July 2019 The news right now is also full of stories about how women are subjugated or abused. — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, "Going Home with Wendell Berry," 29 May 2019 Big, who in the film is taught from a young age to strive toward responsibility, agreeability, and success, can’t thrive, or even survive, in a world that uses his desires as a way to subjugate him. — Prince Shakur, Teen Vogue, ""Native Son" Reflects a World Where Young Black Men Are Often Set Up to Fail," 16 Apr. 2019 Its objectives are to spread the Islamic revolution from Tehran to Damascus, to destroy Israel, and to subjugate anyone who refuses to submit, starting with the Iranian people. — Mike Pompeo, WSJ, "The U.S.-Saudi Partnership Is Vital," 27 Nov. 2018 Shame on Cal State Long Beach President Jane Close Conoley for offering up Prospector Pete as scapegoat for a university, city and state that all have names associated with occupiers who murdered and subjugated indigenous peoples. — WSJ, "Cal State Long Beach Has Only Begun Virtue," 30 Sep. 2018 The Power begins in a world in which women are subjugated, in which they are raped and ignored and belittled and live their lives in fear. — Constance Grady, Vox, "How 3 feminist dystopias are trying to update The Handmaid’s Tale for today," 29 Aug. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'subjugate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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