Definition of "dragooned" [dragooned]

• Simple past tense and past participle of dragoon. (verb)

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