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Grammar : Verb
Spell : en-sleyv
Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈsleɪv



Definition of enslave

Origin :
  • 1640s, from en- (1) "make, put in" + slave (n.). Related: Enslaved; enslaving.
  • verb make someone a servant
Example sentences :
  • Men now-a-days are grown too wise to enslave themselves for women.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • Europe may enslave Asia, because it is flattering: but Europe must not free Asia, because that is responsible.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • And it's true, Kay: they've given up the attempt to enslave China.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various
  • Our souls they will not leave us, our bodies they enslave, they take our goods!
  • Extract from : « The Wild Geese » by Stanley John Weyman
  • He had made himself helpless beyond his affliction, to enslave her better.
  • Extract from : « To-morrow » by Joseph Conrad
  • Some influences are tyrannous; they impose themselves, they dominate, they enslave.
  • Extract from : « The Legacy of Greece » by Various
  • A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnanimity.
  • Extract from : « My Bondage and My Freedom » by Frederick Douglass
  • Remove the antiquated restrictions that enslave our daily actions.
  • Extract from : « Rabbi and Priest » by Milton Goldsmith
  • Time does not enslave them, for they do not trouble about it.
  • Extract from : « Peeps at Many Lands: Norway » by A.F. Mockler-Ferryman
  • She comes, in an error, to avenge herself, and to enslave the blacks.
  • Extract from : « The Hour and the Man » by Harriet Martineau

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