Subjugation is an English word with synonyms like subjection or relationship. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Subjugation meaning
- The act of subjugating.
- The state of being subjugated; forced control by others.
Synonyms of Subjugation
Using Subjugation
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of subjugating. | The state of being subjugated; forced control by others.
- Useful related words include: subjection, relationship, oppression, persecution.
- In the example corpus, subjugation often appears in combinations such as: subjugation of, the subjugation, and subjugation.
Context around Subjugation
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Subjugation
- In this selection, "subjugation" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, colonial, forceful and dictatorship stand out and add context to how "subjugation" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include amounts to subjugation of one and and colonial subjugation of non. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "subjugation" sits close to words such as abducting, accentuate and accomplishes, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with subjugation
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This is quite the cocktail: dictatorship, subjugation and genocide. (9 words)
A nation whose subjugation he supported to the end? (9 words)
Erekat’s statement plays into international expectations of Palestinian subjugation. (10 words)
The group, in a statement on Friday by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said the march would also target on the liberation of victims of neo-colonial subjugation in Nigeria on that fateful day near Capitol Hill Washington. (40 words)
This means a region where people can trade freely, mutually beneficial rules of engagement are endorsed and respected, and countries are able to pursue their development and prosperity without interference and subjugation from outside forces. (35 words)
The authors continue: “Although, the incel worldview is not obviously political, its core ethos entails the subjugation and repression of a group and its violence is designed to have far-reaching societal effects. (33 words)
By claiming the SC status, have the Abrahamic Dalits realised the mistake of their ancestors, that is, the commonality of Dalits across the faith is their subjugation? (27 words)
A nation whose subjugation he supported to the end? (9 words)
Example sentences (20)
By claiming the SC status, have the Abrahamic Dalits realised the mistake of their ancestors, that is, the commonality of Dalits across the faith is their subjugation?
Given the enormous power differences between Jews and Palestinians and the forceful subjugation of the latter group, the Jewish nation rapidly converted itself in an oppressor nation of the Palestinians.
This is quite the cocktail: dictatorship, subjugation and genocide.
A once-proud element of society, you now kneel in subjugation to narrow elitists.
As Russian President Vladmir Putin himself stated, he seeks to restore the tsarist empire established in the 15th century through conquests and colonial subjugation of non-Russian peoples.
This means a region where people can trade freely, mutually beneficial rules of engagement are endorsed and respected, and countries are able to pursue their development and prosperity without interference and subjugation from outside forces.
Three years after their fighters marched back into Kabul in August 2021, this absence tells its own story of systematic marginalisation and subjugation.
A nation whose subjugation he supported to the end?
But the next stage of government subjugation of African-Americans began in 1970 with the War on Drugs, characterized by four decades of increasing punishment for drug-related activity.
Certainly, contemporary, white anti-Semitic supremacist groups are relatives to Nazism in their racist claims that preach the subjugation – or worse – of those who do not belong to the white Aryan family.
Erekat’s statement plays into international expectations of Palestinian subjugation.
He takes the concept of our “subjugation” to capitalism and pushes it further to support a philosophy you could call economic determinism.
In just two decades, the balance of power in New England had tipped from Natives to English newcomers, heralding two more centuries of warfare and subjugation of the tribes.
It is nice to unleash national and social liberations, but the more radical they are, the faster they engender new forms of subjugation.
Its purpose was partition, subjugation, and dispossession of what remained of the Ottoman lands at the close of the Great War.
Just as the subjugation of people of color, people of the queer community, that too is in the service of centralizing power.
Kumar further alleged that the move amounts to “subjugation” of one of the most revered gurdwaras in the world to the government and “in effect” to the people of another faith.
The authors continue: “Although, the incel worldview is not obviously political, its core ethos entails the subjugation and repression of a group and its violence is designed to have far-reaching societal effects.
The construction of “race” and “racism” was the construction of a system of total subjugation that was integral to the development of capitalism.
The group, in a statement on Friday by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said the march would also target on the liberation of victims of neo-colonial subjugation in Nigeria on that fateful day near Capitol Hill Washington.
Common combinations with subjugation
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- subjugation of 20×
- the subjugation 14×
- and subjugation 9×
- subjugation and 5×
- subjugation to 5×
- of subjugation 5×
- subjugation by 4×
- their subjugation 3×
- our subjugation 2×
- subjugation in 2×