dragooning
Meaning of dragooning
verb, gerund or present participle
- 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 dragooning
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of dragooning
dra-goon-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- dragooning is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
dragooning 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 dragooning
Words that rhyme with dragooning
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