dragoon

[US]/drə'guːn/
[UK]/drə'ɡun/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. compel by force; persecute with force; suppress
n. cavalry; dragon soldier
Word Forms
Past Tensedragooned
Third Person Singulardragoons
Pluraldragoons
Past Participledragooned
Present Participledragooning

Example Sentences

the dragoons were stark fellows.

she had been dragooned into helping with the housework.

They dragooned her into working.

We were dragooned into going to the opera.

We were dragooned into the football team.

Synonyms bludgeon, bluster, ||bounce, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, bullyrag, cow, dragoon, hector, ||ruffle, strong-arm, terrorize

Glanders, the atrocious Captain of Dragoons, when informed of the occurrence by Mrs. Glanders, whistled and made jocular allusions to it at dinner time.

Who could have ever expected that a dragoon would drink sixpenny ale, smoke horrid bird's-eye tobacco, and let his wife wear a shabby bonnet?

Real-world Examples

The Zen dragoon, think it'd hurt being hit by a tennis ball being served?

Source: Connection Magazine

The Colonel appeared in the door a moment afterward with a dragoon revolver in his hand.

Source: The Short Stories of Mark Twain

The sentence was drawn up beforehand; Montanelli had sent in the desired informal consent; and the judges (Colonel Ferrari, the local major of dragoons, and two officers of the Swiss guards) had little to do.

Source: The Gadfly (Original Version)

Wayne, in his celebrated campaign on the Miami, received the fire of his enemies in line; and then causing his dragoons to wheel round his flanks, the Indians were driven from their covers before they had time to load.

Source: The Last of the Mohicans (Part Two)

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