subjugate

Verb

• make subservient; force to submit or subdue

• put down by force or intimidation
  • The government quashes any attempt of an uprising
    
  • China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently
    
  • The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  subject , repress , quash , keep down , subdue , reduce