ENSLAVE


Meaning of ENSLAVE in English

(~s, enslaving, ~d)

1.

To ~ someone means to make them into a slave.

They’ve been ~d and had to do what they were told...

I’d die myself before I’d let anyone ~ your folk ever again...

George was born to an ~d African mother.

VERB: be V-ed, V n, V-ed

2.

To ~ a person or society means to trap them in a situation from which they cannot escape.

...the various cultures, cults and religions that have ~d human beings for untold years...

It would be a tragedy if both sexes were ~d to the god of work.

VERB: V n, be V-ed to n, also V n to n

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