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inthrall

inthrall is the archaic spelling of enthrall.

Meaning of enthrall

Verb

enthrall (third-person singular simple present enthralls, present participle enthralling, simple past and past participle enthralled)

  1. (figuratively, transitive) To hold spellbound.
    • Fancy, Jim, to be in love and play Juliet! To have him sitting there! To play for his delight! I am afraid I may frighten the company, frighten or enthrall them.1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 5, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC
  2. (archaic, figuratively, transitive) To make subservient.
    • […] Who oft as undeservedly enthrall / His outward freedom: Tyranny must be;1667, John Milton, “Book XII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
  3. (literally, literary, transitive, otherwise archaic) To enslave; to subjugate.
    Antonyms:
    disenthrall

Forms of inthrall

third-person singular presentinthralls
present participleinthralling
past participleinthralled
pastinthralled

Questions about inthrall

What is inthrall the archaic spelling of?
Inthrall is the archaic spelling of enthrall.

Words near inthrall in the dictionary

  1. Inthavongs
  2. INTHE
  3. intherest
  4. intherests
  5. inthral
  6. inthrall
  7. inthralled
  8. inthralling
  9. inthrallment
  10. inthrallments
  11. inthralls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inthrall (page history and authors); enthrall (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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