dragoon

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dra·goon1 /drəˈɡuːn/ noun [countable]  1.PMASHa soldier in past times who rode a horse and carried a gun and sword 〔旧时骑马、佩枪和剑的〕龙骑兵

Examples from the Corpus

dragoon• Eighty of 400 dragoons were brought down and the rest fled.• The Jacobites, with 800 horse and 6300 infantry, easily outnumbered Argyll's 960 dragoons and 2200 foot soldiers.• He knew about horses from his years as a dragoon.• When the alarm was raised, three companies of dragoons were sent in pursuit.dragoon2 verb  1 dragoon somebody into something phrasal verb FORCE somebody TO DO somethingto force someone to do something they do not want to do 强迫〔某人〕做〔某事〕dragoon somebody into doing something Monica was dragooned into being on the committee. 莫妮卡被强拉进委员会。→ See Verb tableOrigin dragoon1 (1600-1700) French dragon “dragon, gun, soldier with a gun”

dra·goon1 noundragoon2 verbChineseSyllable  

in and a Corpus carried soldier who horse rode past a times

dragoon

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dra‧goon¹ /drəˈɡuːn/ noun [countable]a soldier in past times who rode a horse and carried a gun and sword

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dragoon² verb
     
dragoon somebody into something phrasal verb
  to force someone to do something they do not want to do
    dragoon somebody into doing something
    Monica was dragooned into being on the committee.