subject to
phrasal verbsubject somebody/something to something
- [often passive] to make somebody/something experience, suffer or be affected by something, usually something 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.
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