Forced submission to control by others.

synonym: subjection.

Roget 732: failure; nonsuccess^†, nonfulfillment; dead failure, successlessness^†; abortion, miscarriage; brutum fulmen etc. 158 [Lat.]; labor in vain etc. (inutility) 645; no go; inefficacy^†; inefficaciousness etc. adj.; vain attempt, ineffectual attempt, abortive attempt, abortive efforts; flash in the pan, lame and impotent conclusion" [Othello]; frustration; slip 'twixt cup and lip etc. (disappointment) 509.    blunder etc. (mistake) 495; fault, omission, miss, oversight, slip, trip, stumble, claudication^†, footfall; false step, wrong step; faux pas [Fr.], titubation^†, b_evue [Fr.], faute [Fr.], lurch; botchery etc. (want of skill) 699^†; scrape, mess, fiasco, breakdown; flunk [U.S.].    mishap etc. (misfortune) 735; split, collapse, smash, blow, explosion.    repulse, rebuff, defeat, rout, overthrow, discomfiture; beating, drubbing; quietus, nonsuit^†, subjugation; checkmate, stalemate, fool's mate.    fall, downfall, ruin, perdition; wreck etc. (destruction) 162; deathblow; bankruptcy etc. (nonpayment) 808.    losing game, affaire flamb_ee.    victim; bankrupt; flunker^†, flunky [U.S.].    ... show more

Roget 824: excitation of feeling; mental excitement; suscitation^†, galvanism, stimulation, piquance, piquancy, provocation, inspiration, calling forth, infection; animation, agitation, perturbation; subjugation, fascination, intoxication; enravishment^†; entrancement; pressure, tension, high pressure.    unction, impressiveness etc. adj.. trail of temper, casus belli [Lat.]; irritation etc. (anger) 900; passion etc. (state of excitability) 825; thrill etc. (feeling) 821; repression of feeling etc. 826; sensationalism, yellow journalism.    ... show more

Polish: uzależnienie, podległość, zniewolenie, zależność, jarzmo

The act of subjugating by cruelty.

synonym: oppression.

The act of conquering.

synonyms: conquering, conquest, subjection.

Roget 731: success, successfulness; speed; advance etc. (progress) 282.    trump card; hit, stroke, score; lucky hit, fortunate hit, good hit, good stroke; direct hit, bull's eye; goal, point, touchdown; home run, homer, hole-in-one, grand slam; killing [make money], windfall bold stroke, master stroke; ten strike [U.S.]; coup de maitre [Fr.], checkmate; half the battle, prize; profit etc. (acquisition) 775.    continued success; good fortune etc. (prosperity) 734; time well spent.    advantage over; upper hand, whip hand; ascendancy, mastery; expugnation^†, conquest, victory, subdual^†; subjugation etc. (subjection) 749.    triumph etc. (exultation) 884; proficiency etc. (skill) 698.    conqueror, victor, winner; master of the situation, master of the position, top of the heap, king of the hill; achiever, success, success story.    ... show more

Roget 749: subjection; dependence, dependency; subordination; thrall, thralldom, thraldom, enthrallment, subjugation, bondage, serfdom; feudalism, feudality^†; vassalage, villenage; slavery, enslavement, involuntary servitude; conquest.    service; servitude, servitorship^†; tendence^†, employ, tutelage, clientship^†; liability etc. 177; constraint etc. 751; oppression etc. (severity) 739; yoke etc. (means of restraint) 752; submission etc. 725; obedience etc. 743.    ... show more

Dutch: verovering, onderschikking, onderwerping, submissie
Polish: podbój