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dragoon

verb as in boss around

verb as in bulldoze

verb as in draft

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Countries cannot be "dragooned" into joining a coalition aimed at protecting potential peace in Ukraine, Cabinet Office Minister Pat McFadden has said.

From BBC

Children as young as 4 and 5 were dragooned or tricked into these government-run schools.

Nor was I amused by the dragooning of theatergoers brought onstage to witness atrocities or, at another point, to be turned, without warning, into slaves at an auction.

The premise has the boys, the worst soldiers imaginable, coping with being dragooned into the U.S.

An unassuming, enlightened type, he has been dragooned into choosing a bride only because his brawnier and better-loved brother, Prince Charming, is presumed dead after disappearing at war.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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