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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Right so your selfe were caught in cunning snare Of a deare foe, and thralled to his love; In whose streight bands ye now captived are So firmely, that ye never may remove.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
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
A girl thralled by the mystery of conception awakes at morn in palpitations, seeing visions.
From Modern Painting by George (George Augustus) Moore
Inert, thralled by the presence of that eerie, dreadful being, I watched them leave the shadow of the doorway and pace slowly on with their dignified Eastern gait.
From The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer
This broke the charm which thralled him and sent through his nerves the bracing shock that only a soldier can feel when a hint of coming battle reaches him.
From Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson
