Crossword clues for dragooned
dragooned
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dragoon \Dra*goon"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dragooned; p. pr. & vb. n. Dragooning.]
To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
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To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.
The colonies may be influenced to anything, but they can be dragooned to nothing.
--Price.Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying to dragoon his subjects to heaven.
--Macaulay.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: dragoon)
Usage examples of "dragooned".
A couple of the women who’d been dragooned into the Japs’ military brothel had found ways to kill themselves.
The Japanese dragooned him into being a stretcher-bearer, but he was all right last I saw him.
So were a lot of Japanese soldiers and special naval landing force troops and luckless locals dragooned into working for them.
He walked with a stick and a limp—he’d got shot in the leg after the special naval landing forces dragooned him into hauling and carrying for them.
I had only been a school inspector for eight weeks when I had been dragooned by Harold into undertaking the inspection of PE and games at the school, in place of David Pritchard who had broken his leg by tripping over a raised paving slab at the Golf Club.
The inspection itself had gone pretty well but I had been dragooned a second time on this occasion by the Head of Department, a broad, solid, hard-looking Scotsman called Mr.
Five minutes ago I'd been carelessly eyeing a jaunty backside while Fred or Ginger looked for my luggage - and now I was being dragooned into God knew what horror by this arrogant zealot - and they called the Mahdi a fanatic!
Then at the last minute, blessed if one of Daisy's aged relatives didn't croak, and since it would not have done for dear Lady Flashman to attend their foul house-party unaccompanied, I was dragooned cursing into service.
To that end, he knew that the late Ahndros's servants would have to be permanently silenced, but to slay all five so close to the death of their master might cause comment amongst the Freefighters, so he simply dragooned them to his own service, where he and his striker could keep tabs on them.
To that end, he knew that the late Ahndros' servants would have to be permanently silenced, but to slay all five so close to the death of their master might cause comment amongst the Freefighters, so he simply dragooned them to his own service, where he and his striker could keep tabs on them.
I could have been a member of the King City police dragooned (I later learned) into the first wave of the assault on Virginia City.