SUBJUGATION Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

subjugation

noun

Definition of subjugation next

as in conquest

the act or process of bringing someone or something under one's control the subjugation of much of Europe by Napoléon

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Recent Examples of subjugation In pre-Christian Ireland, sucking breasts was a way of showing subjugation to a king and the cutting out of Old Croghan Man’s nipples is, historians believe, an indication that he had been thus stripped of his claims to kingship. —

Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 17 Mar. 2026 The continent’s failure to learn could lead not just to the subjugation of individual nations but to the end of the European project. —

Liam Denning, Bloomberg, 12 Mar. 2026 Many slaves, Murray noted, internalized this ideal of American freedom despite their own subjugation. —

Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026 After weeks of subjugation at Linda's hands, Bradley discovers that his fiancée and her boat guide had come to the island to rescue them—but Linda killed the pair to avoid returning to the real world. —

Megan McCluskey, Time, 30 Jan. 2026 America is rooted in the rejection of arbitrary power and the subjugation of the individual to the state. —

Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 23 Jan. 2026 By the closing epilogue of the MM romance novel, the author must figure out how to create honest stakes for a gay couple in an overwhelmingly heteronormative context that threatens the heroes with societal subjugation and maybe even physical punishment. —

Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026 This aggressive subjugation of a country that was not, in fact, a threat to the United States doesn’t make America safer or more prosperous and likely makes the whole region less stable. —

Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026 This level of dealmaking far exceeds the bowling alley bets and small-time street gambles that have shaped Marty’s way of moving in the world, and Rockwell represents the kind of ruthless American capitalism and competition that requires humiliation and subjugation. —

Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 25 Dec. 2025

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Noun

For Israel, which had to vacate its Sinai conquest in 1956, there are parallels, too.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
Its latest chart conquest comes after the group — Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jung Kook — completed mandatory military service.

— Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 29 Mar. 2026