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enslaver

American  
[en-slayv-er] / ɛnˈsleɪv ər /

noun

plural

enslavers
  1. someone or something that enslaves or is oppressively controlling.


Other Word Forms

  • enslavery noun

Example Sentences

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He was also an enslaver, blind, as so many others, to his own hypocrisies.

From Slate • May 9, 2025

His enslaver, David Logue, was almost certainly his father.

From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023

It was from the wife of his former enslaver.

From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023

Most likely Pareja was the son of an enslaved woman and a white Spaniard father, perhaps her enslaver.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023

That was as near as I dared to come to asking what had happened to my would-be enslaver.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler