First attested in 1447; fromMiddle Englishsubjugaten(“to conquer, subjugate”), fromsubjugat(e)(“subjugated, made submissive, obedient”,also used as the past participle ofsubjugaten) +‎-en(verb-forming suffix), fromLatinsubiugātus,perfectpassiveparticiple ofsubiugō(“to bring under the yoke, subjugate”) (see-ate(verb-forming suffix)), fromsub-(“under”) +iugō(“yoke”), fromiugum +‎-ō. Seeyoke.

• (UK)IPA^(key):/ˈsʌb.d͡ʒʊˌɡeɪt/,/ˈsʌb.d͡ʒəˌɡeɪt/
• (US)IPA^(key):/ˈsʌb.d͡ʒəˌɡeɪt/

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  • Rhymes:-eɪt
• Hyphenation:sub‧ju‧gate

subjugate (third-person singular simple presentsubjugates,present participlesubjugating,simple past and past participlesubjugated)

1. (transitive) Toforciblyimposeobedience orservitude upon.

   Synonyms:underyoke,enthrall

   • 1782,William Cowper, “Hope”, inPoems, London:[…]J[oseph] Johnson, […],→OCLC,page151:

     From infancy through childhood's giddy maze, / Frovvard at ſchool, and fretful in his plays, / The puny tyrant burns toſubjugate / The free republic of the vvhip-gig ſtate.

• subjugation

First attested in 1429; fromMiddle Englishsubjugat(e)(“subjugated, obedient, made submissive”,also used as the past participle ofsubjugaten), see-ate(adjective-forming suffix) andEtymology 1 for more. Participial usage up untilEarly Modern English.

• (UK)IPA^(key):/ˈsʌb.d͡ʒʊ.ɡɪt/,/ˈsʌb.d͡ʒə.ɡɪt/
• (US)IPA^(key):/ˈsʌb.d͡ʒə.ɡɪt/
• Hyphenation:sub‧ju‧gate

subjugate (notcomparable)

1. In asubjugatedposition.
   • 2010, James M. Volo,A History of War Resistance in America, page17:

     Each nationalist struggle assumed the complexion of a Communist versus non-Communist conflict rather than one between a colonial imperium and asubjugate indigenous population intent on their independence.

2. (obsolete, as a participle)subjugated

• “subjugate”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “subjugate”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.

subjugāte

1. second-personpluralpresentactiveimperative ofsubjugō