单词 | dragoon |
释义 | dragoon (once / 1174 pages) nv WORD FAMILY dragoon: dragooned, dragooning, dragoons USAGE EXAMPLESIt dragoons states into administering federal law, irrespective of their citizens’ views. Wall Street Journal(Sep 25, 2016) The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office says the Triangle T Ranch in Dragoon reported a possible dead body on a driveway Saturday morning. Washington Times(Jul 17, 2016) “You remember Dr. Bulkeley told us he used to be a captain of the dragoons in Barbados.” Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond(1958) 1n a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen Hyper cavalryman, trooper a soldier mounted on horseback 2v subjugate by imposing troops Hyper subject, subjugate make subservient; force to submit or subdue 3v compel by coercion, threats, or crude means Syn|Hyper railroad, sandbag coerce, force, hale, pressure, squeeze to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city" |
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