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subjugate

To subjugate is to bring something or someone under your control and to force submission or compliance. (verb)

When a military force takes over a smaller country and makes that country bend to its will, this is an example of subjugate.

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See subjugate in Webster's New World College Dictionary

See subjugate in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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