Enthrall

/ɪnˈθɹɔːl/ · verb

Meaning

(literally, literary, otherwise archaic) To enslave; to subjugate..

Definitions by Sense

1. (literally, literary, otherwise archaic) To enslave; to subjugate.
2. To hold spellbound.
3. To make subservient.

Example Sentences

Fancy, Jim, to be in love and play Juliet! To have him sitting there! To play for his delight! I am afraid I may frighten the company, frighten or enthrall them.

In the center of the circle of glittering black bodies he leaped and roared and shook his heavy spear in the same mad abandon that enthralled his fellow savages. The last remnant of his civilization was forgotten—he was a primitive man to the fullest now; reveling in the freedom of the fierce, wild life he loved, gloating in his kingship among these wild blacks.

[…] Who oft as undeservedly enthrall / His outward freedom: Tyranny must be;

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• enthralls
• enthralling
• enthralled
• enthral
• inthral
• inthrall

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