enslave
verb (used with object)
to make a slave of; hold (someone) in slavery or bondage.
enslaves
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present tense formof enslave (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Later, it did duty as a lower level of Nibelheim, where Alberich enslaves his fellow Nibelungs as the first step in his quest for world domination.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
Speaking to supporters at the end of his Socialist Party's three-day congress in Valencia, Mr Sanchez said that the practice "enslaves" women.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2021
Were we talking about a Terminator scenario, were a Skynettian matrix of superintelligent machines gains consciousness and either destroys or enslaves humanity in order to further its particular goals?
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2017
“Man’s own deed becomes an alien power opposed to him, which enslaves him instead of being controlled by him,” as Marx put it.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2016
Take no trouble On that head; because the service Of the arts enslaves nobody.
From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Joseph Victor von Scheffel
