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Define the word Dragooning

"Dragooning" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"

Dragoon \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.
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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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