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enslave

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Fromen- +‎slave.

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enslave (third-person singular simple presentenslaves,present participleenslaving,simple past and past participleenslaved)

  1. (transitive) To makesubservient; to strip one of freedom;enthrall.
    The migrants will beenslaved once they're no longer useful to the oligarchs; make no mistake about that.
    • 1848 November –1850 December,William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, inThe History of Pendennis. […], volume(please specify |volume=I or II), London:Bradbury and Evans, […], published1849–1850,→OCLC:
      He and his polite friends would dress themselves out with as much care in order to go and dine at each other’s rooms, as other folks would who were going toenslave a mistress.
    • 1982,Iron Maiden, “Run to the Hills”:
      Selling them whiskey and taking their gold.
      Enslaving the young and destroying the old.
    • 1983,James C. H. Shen, “Signs of Change”, in Robert Myers, editor,The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally‎[1],Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd.,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC, pages52–53:
      The Vice-Premier described the Republic of China as not only an obstacle to Communist aggression, but an alternative to communism. He went on to say that if the Chinese Communists were permitted toenslave the Chinese people on the mainland in perpetuity, there could be no peace or security in Asia—or, for that matter, in the rest of the world—for a long, long time.
    • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:enslave.

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to make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall

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