subject sb/sth to sth
— phrasal verb with subject uk/səbˈdʒekt/us/səbˈdʒekt/verb [ T ]
C2 to make someone or something experience an unpleasant or worrying thing:
The investigation found that they had been subjected to unfair treatment.
"I didn't want to subject him to such a long drive!" she said.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Causing difficulties for oneself or others
- be a tall order idiom
- be asking for trouble idiom
- be your own worst enemy idiom
- bugger
- bugger sb about
- dig
- lay
- lay yourself open to attack, criticism, ridicule, etc. idiom
- like pulling teeth idiom
- make a rod for your own back idiom
- make heavy weather of sth idiom
- overburden
- pose
- shoot
- spell trouble idiom
- store
- store sth up
- store up trouble/problems idiom
- suicidal
- wrong-foot
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