enslave
/ɪnˈsleɪv/ verb C1- To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall. · The migrants will be enslaved once they're no longer useful to the oligarchs; make no mistake about that.
He/she/it enslaves · Past enslaved · Past participle enslaved · -ing form enslaving
Verb forms
- Base form
- enslave
- He/she/it
- enslaves
- Past
- enslaved
- Past participle
- enslaved
- -ing form
- enslaving
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From that hour he found that instead of obtaining revenge on the Stag, he had enslaved himself to the service of man.
“This was all we ever had to do until the Golden Cap fell into the hands of the Wicked Witch of the West, who made us enslave the Winkies, and afterward drive Oz himself out of the Land of the West.
At that time, it was illegal for enslaved people to learn.
He worked hard to help other enslaved people find their freedom.
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