Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of dragoon.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word dragooning.

Examples

  • There are many such people around, who object to the 'dragooning' of science for political ends by a powerful clique.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • IFP leaders of "dragooning" innocent people into sabotaging their mass action campaign.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • Word eventually reaches the local warlord, who three years earlier sanctioned the dragooning of their son and husband.

    The Horror, at Home David Mermelstein 2011

  • President Obama recently announced support for the deal after dragooning one more round of needless concessions from the Colombians.

    Trumping Trumka 2011

  • Charles Taylor's on trial for war crimes at the U.N. special court at The Hague, charged with murder, rape, dragooning child soldiers, and massacring civilians in a civil war largely financed by dirty looking stones, often known as blood diamonds.

    The Very Model Of An Unwary Major Supermodel 2010

  • Charles Taylor's on trial for war crimes at the U.N. special court at The Hague, charged with murder, rape, dragooning child soldiers, and massacring civilians in a civil war largely financed by dirty looking stones, often known as blood diamonds.

    The Very Model Of An Unwary Major Supermodel 2010

  • This is just as easy and at least as common as governments dragooning their populations into doing The Right Thing ™.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » A Primer on Libertarianism 2009

  • Mackintosh turns his smallest cast into his biggest one by dragooning many in the audience into a conga line that snakes through the theater to the calypsoid carol "Push Ka Pi Shi Pie."

    Mac Attack: Here Comes Mr. Jordan 2008

  • You leave it vulnerable to regime change, and a dragooning of Iran back into the US sphere of influence, denying it to China and assuring its 500 tcf of natural gas to US corporations.

    Juan Cole on the Misnomer of "Islamic Fascism" JDsg 2006

  • You leave it vulnerable to regime change, and a dragooning of Iran back into the US sphere of influence, denying it to China and assuring its 500 tcf of natural gas to US corporations.

    Archive 2006-08-01 JDsg 2006

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.