subjugation

subjugation
    n 1: forced submission to control by others [syn: {subjugation},
         {subjection}]
    2: the act of subjugating by cruelty; "the tyrant's oppression
       of the people" [syn: {oppression}, {subjugation}]
    3: the act of conquering [syn: {conquest}, {conquering},
       {subjection}, {subjugation}]
    

Subjugation \Sub`ju*ga"tion\, n. [Cf. F. subjugation, LL.
   subjugatio.]
   The act of subjugating, or the state of being subjugated.
   [1913 Webster]
    

77 Moby Thesaurus words for "subjugation":
      Waterloo, absolutism, adoption, appropriation, arrogation,
      assumption, beating, bond service, bondage, captivity, collapse,
      colonization, conquering, conquest, control, crash, deathblow,
      debacle, debt slavery, defeat, deprivation of freedom, destruction,
      disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, downfall,
      drubbing, enslavement, enthrallment, failure, fall, feudalism,
      feudality, helotism, helotry, hiding, indent, indentureship,
      lambasting, lathering, licking, mastery, occupation, overcoming,
      overthrow, overturn, peonage, preemption, preoccupation,
      prepossession, quietus, requisition, restraint, ruin, serfdom,
      serfhood, servility, servitude, slavery, smash, subdual, subduing,
      subjection, takeover, taking over, thrall, thralldom, thrashing,
      trimming, trouncing, tyranny, undoing, usurpation, vanquishment,
      vassalage, villenage, whipping