dragooned
Meaning of dragooned
verb, past tense
- coerce (someone) into doing something.
she had been dragooned into helping with the housework
early 17th century (denoting a kind of carbine or musket, thought of as breathing fire): from French dragon ‘dragon’.
Information about dragooned
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of dragooned
dra-gooned
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- dragooned is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
dragooned synonyms
Meaning persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats:
Meaning attempt to persuade or coerce (someone) into doing something:
Meaning compel or force (someone) to follow a particular course of action:
Meaning make strong efforts to persuade or force (someone) to do something:
Meaning exert force on (someone or something) in order to move them away from oneself:
Meaning make (someone) do something against their will:
Meaning force or oblige (someone) to do something:
Meaning drive, force, or urge (someone) to do something:
Meaning make (someone) legally or morally bound to do something:
Meaning firmly press (something soft or yielding), typically with one's fingers:
Meaning harass, persecute, or pursue relentlessly:
Meaning subject to aggressive pressure or intimidation:
Meaning harass (someone) constantly to do something that they are averse to:
Meaning persistently carry out attacks on (an enemy or an enemy's territory):
Meaning repeatedly ask (someone) to do something; pester:
Meaning provoke or annoy (someone) so as to stimulate an action or reaction:
Meaning operate and control the direction and speed of a motor vehicle:
Meaning poke with a finger, foot, or pointed object:
Meaning trouble or annoy (someone) with frequent or persistent requests or interruptions:
Meaning intimidate (someone), typically into doing something, with stern or abusive words:
Meaning pressurize (someone) into adopting radically different beliefs by using systematic and often forcible means:
Meaning force or bully (someone) to do something:
Meaning seek to harm, intimidate, or coerce (someone perceived as vulnerable):
Meaning state one's intention to take hostile action against (someone) in retribution for something done or not done:
Meaning rule or treat (someone) despotically or cruelly:
Meaning have an influence on:
Meaning frighten or overawe (someone), especially in order to make them do what one wants:
Meaning a gambling card game in which players try to acquire cards with a face value totalling 21 and no more:
Meaning use force insensitively when dealing with (someone or something):
Meaning rush or coerce (someone) into doing something:
Meaning (with reference to an object, especially a ball) move quickly up, back, or away from a surface after hitting it:
Meaning pressure someone into doing something:
Anagrams of dragooned
Words that rhyme with dragooned
backboned, bareboned, beribboned, boned, carboned, deboned, edgeboned, hamboned, herringboned, jawboned, rawboned, ribboned, ringboned, twitterboned, unboned, uncarboned, unribboned, whaleboned, beaconed, coned, deaconed, rubiconed, unbeaconed, abandoned, condoned, cordoned, guerdoned, pardoned, reabandoned, reguerdoned, unabandoned, uncondoned, unguerdoned, unpardoned, bludgeoned, bourgeoned, burgeoned, dungeoned, endungeoned, escutcheoned, gudgeoned, luncheoned, murgeoned, neoned, pigeoned, scutcheoned, truncheoned, unescutcheoned, unscutcheoned, doggoned
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