conscripted

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  1. noun One compulsorily enrolled for service, especially in the armed forces; a draftee.
  2. adjective Enrolled compulsorily; drafted.
  3. transitive verb To enroll compulsorily into service; draft.

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  • That's how I became mayor; my father was barely YOUng enough and definitely fit enough to be conscripted, and I had been his secretary from the time I was old enough to be useful. —  Storm Rising
  • The civil war had become much more bloody, with enormous casualties, and the danger of being conscripted or simply impressed into the army was growing. —  WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA
  • Yu-lin never did any work for the intelligence system, but his membership guaranteed him against being conscripted, and he was able to stay and help Dr. Xia in the medicine shop. —  WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA
  • By then, even married men were being conscripted, and Mrs. Bennett's son had been killed, leaving a wife and two tiny children with a third baby on the way; Mrs. Bennett turned in her notice to go and help care for them. —  Phoenix And Ashes
  • That one not only got you out of being conscripted, it got many a man out of the trenches and home. —  Phoenix And Ashes
 

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