subjugate
Forced into submission.
[…] Could it be, that the whole earthly course of one so gentle, good, and self-denying, was subjugate to such a wretch as that!
Her heart was so black and tangled in the teaching, her personal self was shut in prison, abolished, she was subjugate to a bad, destructive will.
(rare) A person forced into submission; a subject.
To forcibly impose obedience, servitude, or submission upon (a country, a people, etc.).
At this the Emir marvelled beyond measure and said, "Glory be to God who subjugateth His creatures to the dominion of Death!"
So the battle went on till her heart was sick. She had several more boys to subjugate before she could establish herself.
To make (someone or something) subordinate to another person or thing; to subordinate.
[H]is love and his hatred were of that passionate fervour which subjugates all the rest of the being, and makes a man sacrifice himself to his passion as if it were a deity to be worshipped with self-destruction.
To tame (an animal); to domesticate.
(figurative, obsolete, rare) To put (one's neck or shoulders) under a metaphorical yoke.
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