Word.ws English Dictionary

inslave

inslave is the archaic form of enslave.

Meaning of enslave

Verb

enslave (third-person singular simple present enslaves, present participle enslaving, simple past and past participle enslaved)

  1. (transitive) 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.

Forms of inslave

third-person singular presentinslaves
present participleinslaving
past participleinslaved
pastinslaved

Origin of inslave

From in- + slave.

Questions about inslave

What is inslave the archaic form of?
Inslave is the archaic form of enslave.

Words near inslave in the dictionary

  1. Inskeep
  2. Inskeeps
  3. Inskip
  4. Inskip-with-Sowerby
  5. Inskips
  6. inslave
  7. inslaved
  8. inslaver
  9. inslavers
  10. inslaves
  11. inslaving

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: inslave (page history and authors); enslave (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “inslave.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/inslave. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.