'Subjugation' definitions:
Definition of 'subjugation'
(from WordNet)
noun
Forced submission to control by others [syn: subjugation, subjection]
noun
The act of subjugating by cruelty; "the tyrant's oppression of the people" [syn: oppression, subjugation]
noun
Definition of 'Subjugation'
From: GCIDE
- Subjugation \Sub`ju*ga"tion\, n. [Cf. F. subjugation, LL. subjugatio.] The act of subjugating, or the state of being subjugated. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'subjugation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolutism,
- adoption,
- appropriation,
- arrogation,
- assumption,
- beating,
- bond service,
- bondage,
- captivity,
- collapse,
- colonization,
- conquering,
- conquest,
- control,
- crash,
- deathblow,
- debacle,
- debt slavery,
- defeat,
- deprivation of freedom,
- destruction,
- disenfranchisement,
- disfranchisement,
- domination,
- downfall,
- drubbing,
- enslavement,
- enthrallment,
- failure,
- fall,
- feudalism,
- feudality,
- helotism,
- helotry,
- hiding,
- indent,
- indentureship,
- lambasting,
- lathering,
- licking,
- mastery,
- occupation,
- overcoming,
- overthrow,
- overturn,
- peonage,
- preemption,
- preoccupation,
- prepossession,
- quietus,
- requisition,
- restraint,
- ruin,
- serfdom,
- serfhood,
- servility,
- servitude,
- slavery,
- smash,
- subdual,
- subduing,
- subjection,
- takeover,
- taking over,
- thrall,
- thralldom,
- thrashing,
- trimming,
- trouncing,
- tyranny,
- undoing,
- usurpation,
- vanquishment,
- vassalage,
- villenage,
- Waterloo,
- whipping