SUBJECT SB/STH TO STH


Meaning of SUBJECT SB/STH TO STH in English

[ often passive ] to make sb/sth experience, suffer or be affected by sth, usually sth unpleasant :

to be subjected to ridicule

The city was subjected to heavy bombing.

The defence lawyers claimed that the prisoners had been subjected to cruel and degrading treatment.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.