thrall
noun
a person who is morally or mentally enslaved by some power, influence, or the like.
thralling
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present participleof thrall.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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How a tamed lion learns to survive in the wilderness is told in an en thralling adventure film based on the bestseller by Joy Adamson.
From Time Magazine Archive
In waking and sleeping hours Madeline Hammond could not release herself from the thralling memory of that tragedy.
From Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey
Miraculously, over-night, the shabby wall had blossomed into thralling splendor.
From Back Home by Eugene Wood
Slowly she drew near, thralling me as it were with the wonder of her look that I had neither power nor will to move or speak.
From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Jeffery Farnol
In the Firelight My dear wife sits beside the fire With folded hands and dreaming eyes, Watching the restless flames aspire, And wrapped in thralling memories.
From Poems by John Hay
