dragoon \dragoon"\, 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.
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   2. to compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to
      persecute.
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            the colonies may be influenced to anything, but they
            can be dragooned to nothing.          --price.
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            lewis the fourteenth is justly censured for trying
            to dragoon his subjects to heaven.    --macaulay.
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see also:
dragooned dragooning