to dragoon
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9.7
- verb
- /drəˈɡun/
- NSFW
:
coaccionar
- By the early 1960s, the family had dragooned so much of its ranch staff into looting that it neglected the cattle-raising business.
Examples
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I know plenty of artists who work as artists quite happily and successfully without having been dragooned into servitude to corporate masters in that mean old "nonprofit industry."
Blog text (19) -
That summer, I kept dragooning students with cars for Sunday service.
Academic text (1996) -
To fill the audience, the professor's mother, wife, and daughter had been dragooned into attendance.
Fiction book (2002) -
The social workers had dragooned her into secretarial courses and found her a job in the offices of a dress factory, from which she played hooky as often as she dared.
Fiction book (1993) -
His days were consumed working with Arnie and whatever volunteers he could dragoon from the membership to sort through the piles of applications, medical reports, and pitiful pleas that were delivered in ever-bigger postal bags to the back room of the club.
Fiction book (1996) -
Jazz did all the rest of the summer, dragooning Susie, the vaqueros, the farmers who rented land on the ranch, their children, the mailman, the milkman, and every salesman who appeared.
Fiction book (1990) -
The manager had to dragoon the employees into meeting the project deadline by threatening their bonuses.
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During the meeting, he dragooned his colleagues into agreeing with his proposal despite their reservations.
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The coach dragooned the players into practicing late into the evening to improve their skills.
Synonyms
704
2.0
To pull something along the ground with effort or force someone into a place unwillingly
91
6.4
Force someone to do something by threats
22
7.0
To force someone to do something quickly and unfairly
15
7.5
To force someone to do something by threats or violence
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8.1
To make someone do something by threatening them or using angry words
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8.2
To force someone to do something by threats or strong pressure
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8.9
Force someone to accept ideas or opinions without their choice
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8.3
Make someone accept ideas or opinions they do not want by pressuring them
To frighten or shout at someone to make them do what you want
Antonyms
How Forced
- NSFW
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9.7
258
4.8
- Offensive
91
6.4
- Offensive
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3.8
294
4.9
149
4.2
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dragoon as a verb comes from the soldiers called dragoons, who were sometimes used to force people to obey. So to dragoon someone now means to force or pressure them into doing something.