BONDAGE


Meaning of BONDAGE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ bɒndɪdʒ ]

1.

Bondage is the condition of being someone’s property and having to work for them.

Masters sometimes allowed their slaves to buy their way out of bondage.

= slavery

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2.

Bondage is the condition of not being free because you are strongly influenced by something or someone. ( FORMAL )

All people, she said, lived their lives in bondage to hunger, pain and lust.

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3.

Bondage is the practice of being tied up or tying your partner up in order to gain sexual pleasure.

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