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enslaves

  • present tense form of enslave (3rd person singular).

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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

Then he pauses and sinks in his chair and answers himself, "It is a handcuff that enslaves poor workers."

From Salon • May 12, 2022

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

From these images, Jemisin spun out a four-hundred-page story about an empire that enslaves its deities.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 20, 2020

Burghers, high our banner waves, the standard of the free, No foreign yoke our land enslaves, here reigneth liberty.

From In the Shadow of Death by Kritzinger, P. H.