enslave
[en-sleyv]
- to make a slave of; reduce to slavery: His drug addiction has completely enslaved him.
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Contemporary Examples
Even then, it would be a far cry from enslavement, where everything produced is stolen by an outside power.
Any attempt to encroach on it, even by an iota, will ultimately lead to our enslavement by a federal tyranny.
Free votes can supplant villains with worse villains, corruption, and brutality with tyranny and enslavement of women.
Historical Examples
He is no party to his own enslavement,—he is none to his disenthralment.
The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII)John Greenleaf Whittier
I execrate the enslavement of the mind of our young children by the ecclesiastics.
The Necessity of AtheismDr. D.M. Brooks
But ask the slave what is his condition—what his state of mind—what he thinks of enslavement?
My Bondage and My FreedomFrederick Douglass
The South had begun by agreeing reluctantly to the enslavement of men.
What I Saw in AmericaG. K. Chesterton
This enslavement was not to foreign rulers, but to those of their own blood.
UsuryCalvin Elliott
enslave
- (tr) to make a slave of; reduce to slavery; subjugate
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Word Origin and History for enslavement
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