subjugate

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of SUBJUGATE

to bring under one's control by force of arms <explorers who subjugated the natives in the name of religion>

Synonyms dominate, overpower, pacify, subdue, subject, subjugate, subordinate, vanquish

Related Words annihilate, beat, clobber, crush, defeat, drub, lick, mow (down), overcome, prevail (over), reduce, rout, skunk, smash, thrash, triumph (over), trounce, wallop, whip; enslave; break, clamp down (on), crack down (on), put down, quash, quell, repress, silence, smother, snuff (out), squash, squelch, suppress

Near Antonyms discharge, emancipate, enfranchise, free, liberate, manumit, release, spring, unbind, uncage, unchain, unfetter

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