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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dragoon.

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Examples

  • Subsequently both plans were renamed, the latter becoming Operation Overlord, the former becoming Operation Dragoon; a name supposedly picked by Winston Churchill, who was opposed to the plan, and claimed to having been "dragooned" into accepting it.

    October 2005 2005

  • Subsequently both plans were renamed, the latter becoming Operation Overlord, the former becoming Operation Dragoon; a name supposedly picked by Winston Churchill, who was opposed to the plan, and claimed to having been "dragooned" into accepting it.

    Cool Picture 2005

  • President Mbeki said in an interview earlier this month Pretoria would not dictate policy to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, nor would it be "dragooned" into overthrowing his government.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • Poitou, already "dragooned" in 1681 by the intendant Marillac, had just been so well labored with by

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

  • The State had been, as he phrased it, "dragooned" out of the Union; and President Lincoln was perfectly justified in calling for troops after the seizure of the forts and arsenals.

    Admiral Farragut 1877

  • Remembering how Calvin himself "dragooned" Geneva, let us be thankful for the fortune which, in one of the most critical periods of history, raised to the highest position in Christendom a man who was something more than a sectarian.

    The Unseen World, and Other Essays 1876

  • Remembering how Calvin himself "dragooned" Geneva, let us be thankful for the fortune which, in one of the most critical periods of history, raised to the highest position in Christendom a man who was something more than a sectarian.

    The Unseen World and Other Essays John Fiske 1871

  • There is some muttering about being 'dragooned', but I do not take insubordination from the lower ranks.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • Towards 1pm I'm dragooned into an extra bit of programming, a Quick-Draw event, due to Matt Feazell having to leave for a family emergency.

    Kids Read Comics Report (with preamble) Roger Langridge 2010

  • Towards 1pm I'm dragooned into an extra bit of programming, a Quick-Draw event, due to Matt Feazell having to leave for a family emergency.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Roger Langridge 2010

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