Enslave

Quick meaning: Enslave is a verb meaning (transitive) To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.

Meaning

(transitive) To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.

Example Sentences

Selling them whiskey and taking their gold. Enslaving the young and destroying the old.

The migrants will be enslaved once they're no longer useful to the oligarchs; make no mistake about that.

He and his polite friends would dress themselves out with as much care in order to go and dine at each other’s rooms, as other folks would who were going to enslave a mistress.

The Vice-Premier described the Republic of China as not only an obstacle to Communist aggression, but an alternative to communism. He went on to say that if the Chinese Communists were permitted to enslave the Chinese people on the mainland in perpetuity, there could be no peace or security in Asia—or, for that matter, in the rest of the world—for a long, long time.

Word Forms

• enslaves
• enslaving
• enslaved

Synonyms for enslave

Depending on context, synonyms include beslave, bethrall, enslaven, enthrall.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include subjugate, dominate, inslave, enthrall, subject, disenthrall.

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