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enslaven

enslaven adjective: enslaved.

Adjective

enslaven (comparative more enslaven, superlative most enslaven)

  1. (archaic, dated, poetic) enslaved
    • Let the dotard and craven by fear be enslaven.1846, Horace Smith, Miscellaneous poems, page 58
    • Your Petitioner having for immense of time served His Highness the Nabob Homdud ul Omrah with cautiousness and close attention even to that degree not to mind his meals or either rest as if he was enslaven to him, […]1858, Carnatic Stipendaries of 1801

Verb

enslaven (third-person singular simple present enslavens, present participle enslavening, simple past and past participle enslavened)

  1. (transitive) to enslave

Forms of enslaven

Adjective
comparativemore enslaven
superlativemost enslaven
Verb
third-person singular presentenslavens
present participleenslavening
past participleenslavened
pastenslavened

Origin of enslaven

From enslave + -en.

From a verbal use of Etymology 1; or from en- + slave + -en.

Questions about enslaven

What does enslaven mean?
Enslaven means enslaved.
What part of speech is enslaven?
Enslaven can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near enslaven in the dictionary

  1. enslaveable
  2. enslaved
  3. enslavedness
  4. enslavement
  5. enslavements
  6. enslaven
  7. enslavened
  8. enslavening
  9. enslavens
  10. enslaver
  11. enslavers

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