The phrase "subjugate him" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is used to refer to the act of conquering or dominating someone, usually in some kind of political or social context. For example, you could use the phrase in the sentence: "The ruthless dictator attempted to subjugate him, but his people refused to be silenced."
He bends, shrinking against further violence, and the frame also holds him down, subjugates him.
Paige is attached to Jamie, but she's into subjugating him more.
And now, three years since Mr. Robinson died at age 88, the state that once subjugated him has put its money and imprimatur on a museum devoted to his life and legacy.
An armed populace is one far less easy to subjugate, he points out, and after that it doesn't take him long to get back to the American Revolution.
About six years old when his stepfather arrives, he has no way to see that Murdstone is symbolically crushing a sexual rival when he bullies and beats him — subjugating the son of the deceased father who may still impose lingering claims on David's mother's affections.
Nureddin's expansionist policy led him to annex Damascus (1154), subjugate Egypt (1168), and present a broad and competent Muslim front against the crusaders, especially under such generals as Saladin, subsequent founder of the Ayyūbid dynasty of Egypt.
Abou talks of visitors, friendly and otherwise: of the Prophet's descendants in the ninth century who used Lamu to disseminate Islam throughout east Africa; of Vasco da Gama in 1498, the Portuguese viceroys that followed him and their attempts to subjugate the islanders; of Yemenis, Omanis, Somalis, Zanzibaris... all these people left was their genes, which we see in Lamu's handsome faces.
"And this movement is not single-focused... Nat Turner was rooted in a place of faith that helps to subjugate his people and the people who looked like him... Once he knew better, he did better.
Yet he portrayed those arrayed against him as religious zealots engaged in a campaign whose aim was nothing less than to subjugate women.
Did Britain subjugate territory?
