Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make into or as if into a slave.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make a slave of; reduce to slavery or bondage; subject to the arbitrary will of a master: as, barbarous nations enslave their prisoners of war.
- Figuratively, to reduce to a condition analogous to slavery; deprive of moral liberty or power; subject to an enthralling influence: as, to be enslaved by drink or one's passions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make
subservient ; to strip one of freedom;enthrall .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a slave of; bring into servitude
Etymologies
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Examples
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I saw a parcel of people caballing together to ruin property, corrupt the laws, invade the Government, debauch the people, and in short, enslave and embroil the nation, and I cried 'Fire!' or rather I cried 'Water!' for the fire was begun already.
Daniel Defoe Minto, William, 1845-1893 1879
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Government, debauch the people, and in short, enslave and embroil the nation, and I cried 'Fire!' or rather I cried 'Water!' for the fire was begun already.
Daniel Defoe William Minto 1869
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Miller claims that the government uses grammar to "enslave" Americans and offers up his truly weird "Truth-language" as an antidote.
Mark Potok: Who is Jared Lee Loughner? Mark Potok 2011
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Miller claims that the government uses grammar to "enslave" Americans and offers up his truly weird "Truth-language" as an antidote.
Mark Potok: Who is Jared Lee Loughner? Mark Potok 2011
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Miller claims that the government uses grammar to "enslave" Americans and offers up his truly weird "Truth-language" as an antidote.
Mark Potok: Who is Jared Lee Loughner? Mark Potok 2011
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Germans bludgeon the French armies into surrender, then "enslave" much of the local population to service the German military regime.
Movie:Why We Fight - Capra Zen Tiger 2010
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Before the "black helicopters" of the 1990s, there were right-wingers claiming access to secret documents from the 1920s proving that the entire concept of a "civil rights movement" had been hatched in the Soviet Union; when the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act was introduced, one frequently read in the South that it would "enslave" whites.
Archive 2009-08-01 Stephen Retherford 2009
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We did not "enslave" domesticated animals- we co-evolved.
Reading Michael Pollan is bad for you. Or good. Presents 2009
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It is one of the ways the Financial institutions maintain control and continue to 'enslave' the public.
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We did not "enslave" domesticated animals- we co-evolved.
Archive 2009-04-01 Presents 2009
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