enslave
verb (used with object)
to make a slave of; hold (someone) in slavery or bondage.
had enslaved
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past perfectof enslave.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Ten months into his military service, the man who had enslaved Grant showed up at his outpost and ordered his return, a demand to which the Army readily acceded.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2020
Colleges, including William & Mary, had enslaved workers, and the colleges were closely linked with churches.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 8, 2020
The discovery that John Quincy Adams, a known abolitionist, had enslaved people in his presidential household surprised Chervinsky.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2020
Bouie: This pretty smart, you know, attempt to circumvent their slave’s escape betrays the extent to which slave owners did in fact understand that the people they had enslaved were people.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2015
The ranks of the dead-alive quivered, moved, writhed, as though each felt the torment of the Thing that had enslaved them.
From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
