enslave
/ɪnˈsleɪv/
enslave verb: to make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.
Verb
enslave (third-person singular simple present enslaves, present participle enslaving, simple past and past participle enslaved)
- 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 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 to enslave a mistress.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
enslave meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
enslave in Tamil
- அடிமைப்படுத்து
enslave in Urdu
- غلام بنانا
enslave in Malayalam
- അടിമയാക്കുക, ദാസ്യപ്പെടുത്തുക, വശപ്പെടുത്തിവയ്ക്കുക
enslave in Kannada
- ಅಡಿಯಾಳಾಗಿಸು, ತೊತ್ತು ಮಾಡು, ಉಡುಗಿಸು
More languagesFewer languages
- enslave in Arabic
- اِسْتَعْبَدَ istaʕbada, اِسْتَرَقَّ istaraqqa
- enslave in Vietnamese
- nô dịch
Examples of enslave in a sentence
- It's no doubt the case that the internet enslaves us.
- From a society of a white elite ruling over a predominantly enslaved Black subaltern population, the Haitian Revolution generated a slaveless country that proceeded to suffer with socioeconomic divides.
- As a result, many Black people remained unfairly enslaved and indentured in the so-called free territory.
Synonyms of enslave
Forms of enslave
| third-person singular present | enslaves |
|---|---|
| present participle | enslaving |
| past participle | enslaved |
| past | enslaved |
| alternative form | inslave |
Origin of enslave
From en- + slave.
Words formed from enslave
Words that rhyme with enslave
Questions about enslave
- What does enslave mean?
- Enslave means to make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.
- What is enslave in Tamil?
- Enslave in Tamil is அடிமைப்படுத்து. See Enslave meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is enslave?
- Enslave is a verb.
- How do you pronounce enslave?
- Enslave is pronounced /ɪnˈsleɪv/.
- What is the past tense of enslave?
- The past tense of enslave is enslaved.
Words near enslave in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: enslave (page history and authors); enslave (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); enslave (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); enslave (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); enslave (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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