All dragoon synonyms
draΒ·goon
D d verb dragoon
- martyr β a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
- worry β to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- pester β to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- vex β to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
- beat β If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
- ill-treat β to treat badly; maltreat; abuse.
- plague β French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
- aggrieve β to grieve; distress; afflict
- annoy β If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
- tease β to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
- bother β If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
- hunt β to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
- dog β a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- inspire β to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.
- influence β the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
- persuade β to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- hurry β to move, proceed, or act with haste (often followed by up): Hurry, or we'll be late. Hurry up, it's starting to rain.
- motivate β to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- jolly β in good spirits; lively; merry: In a moment he was as jolly as ever.
- prod β to poke or jab with or as if with something pointed: I prodded him with my elbow.
- railroad β a permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail.
- kid β Thomas, 1558β94, English dramatist.
- goose β any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
- fright β sudden and extreme fear; a sudden terror.
- startle β to disturb or agitate suddenly as by surprise or alarm.
- petrify β to convert into stone or a stony substance.
- push around β to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- lord it over β (Idiomatic) VT To behave as if one is in control of; to make a display of having an advantage over or superiority to.
- shotgun β a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- twist one's arm β to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
- crack down β If people in authority crack down on a group of people, they become stricter in making the group obey rules or laws.
- put the arm on β the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- conscribe β to conscript
- sign on β a token; indication.
noun dragoon
- jockey β a person who rides horses professionally in races.
- cowboy β A cowboy is a male character in a western.
- postilion β a person who rides the left horse of the leading or only pair of horses drawing a carriage.
- gaucho β a native cowboy of the South American pampas, usually of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry.
- broncobuster β (in the western US and Canada) a cowboy who breaks in broncos or wild horses
- pricker β a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like.
- roughrider β a person who breaks horses to the saddle.
- cavalryman β A cavalryman is a soldier who is in the cavalry, especially one who rides a horse.
- buckaroo β a cowboy
- horse β a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- army β An army is a large organized group of people who are armed and trained to fight on land in a war. Most armies are organized and controlled by governments.
- lancers β a cavalry soldier armed with a lance.
- bowlegs β outward curvature of the legs causing a separation of the knees when the ankles are close or in contact.