Thesaurus: dragoon

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1. n. Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man.
2. n. A variety of pigeon.
3. v. t. To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
4. v. t. To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.
5. n. a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen
6. v. compel by coercion, threats, or crude means
7. v. subjugate by imposing troops
8. 1. ((Mil.) Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man. 2. A variety of pigeon. Clarke. Dragoon bird (Zoöl.), the umbrella bird. 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.
9. Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either onhorseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man.
10. v:20/n:80 n. a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen v. compel by coercion, threats, or crude means v. subjugate by imposing troops