Dra·goon, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dragooned p. pr. & vb. n. Dragooning.]
1. To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
2. To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.
The colonies may be influenced to anything, but they can be dragooned to nothing. --Price.
Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying to dragoon his subjects to heaven. --Macaulay.
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