0 past simple and past participle of subjugate
1 to defeat people or a country and rule them in a way that allows them no freedom
2 to treat yourself, your wishes, or your beliefs as being less important than other people or their wishes or beliefs:
Reporters must subjugate personal political convictions to their professional commitment to balance.
Finally, public health working was being dominated, even subjugated, at policy and practice levels by the power of the 'bio-medical' model.
The step by step visual encapsulates women's sense of being subjugated in this society and resonates in other women's responses.
Local initiatives in development were subjugated to increased state control.
Highlanders were particularly fearful of being politically subjugated and economically exploited by the lowlanders.
Others view the new political set-up as the free association of formerly subjugated peoples, the only firm foundation for a democratic, sturdy and stable state.
While such socially- and emotionally-defined experiences are subjugated in the dominant discourse, they are the primary themes in older women's accounts.
But again, the layers of organization and activity devoted to this must also be subjugated to the needs of patient and public health.
She therefore applies the hermeneutic/dialogic method of understanding to give voice to a set of subjugated truth claims.