Dragoon

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A member of a European military unit trained and armed to fight mounted or on foot.
  • v. To subjugate or persecute by the imposition of troops.
  • v. To compel by violent measures or threats; coerce.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted.
  • n. A carrier of a dragon musket.
  • v. To force someone into doing something; to coerce.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man.
  • n. A variety of pigeon.
  • v. To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
  • v. To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A cavalry soldier.
  • n. A dragonade.
  • n. Same as dragon, 2 .
  • To set dragoons or soldiers upon, as in the dragonades (see dragonade); persecute or oppress by armed force.
  • To cause to submit, as by persistent threats; compel by repeated acts of any kind; harass.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. compel by coercion, threats, or crude means
  • n. a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen
  • v. subjugate by imposing troops
  • Verb Form
    dragooned    dragooning    dragoons   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    squeeze    coerce    pressure    hale    force    cavalryman    trooper    subjugate    subject   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    harass    persecute