thrall
noun
a person who is morally or mentally enslaved by some power, influence, or the like.
thralled
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past participleof thrall.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof thrall.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
thrallnouna person who is morally or mentally enslaved by some power, influence, or the like.
Example Sentences
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The dust of dim forgetfulness piles fast Upon the chains that thralled us yesterday.
From Songs Ysame by Albion Fellows Bacon
He could remember nothing of the joy that had thralled him for two years, that by its ending had desolated him for two more and alienated him from women.
From The Judge by Rebecca West
He sat horribly thralled, so long as he was allowed; he crept afterwards to bed and lay there shuddering.
From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
Particularly one, that which would be capped next in the orbit of the lever, held him fascinated; the winking potentiality of it thralled him, as the troubled crystal devours the gaze of the Hindu magi.
From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Elizabeth Ashe
Rachel.—The wonderful accuracy of the death-scene in "Adrienne Lecouvreur" has been the object of universal praise in London, not merely from the thrilled and thralled public, but from men of art and science.
From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 by Various
