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take slave

take slave verb: to enslave someone; to strip someone of their freedom.

Verb

take slave (third-person singular simple present takes slave, present participle taking slave, simple past took slave, past participle taken slave)

  1. To enslave someone; to strip someone of their freedom.
    • His Behaviour brings to my Mind that of a certain proud beggarly Spaniard, of the Ausirian Faction, who, being taken Slave by the Algerines, came to our Conful Cole, who had an Order, from his Correspondent at Barcelona, to endeavour to redeem him.1731, Joseph Morgan, chapter IV, in History of Algiers, page 271
    • Modest Morvith of the golden hair, that lily-browed girl in Enid's shape, made passion catch and glow to flame when in bright leaves once around my neck her white arms went to take me slave to lips I'd not known.1997, John Wood, The Gates of the Elect Kingdom: Poems, →ISBN, page 37

Forms of take slave

third-person singular presenttakes slave
present participletaking slave
pasttook slave
past participletaken slave

Questions about take slave

What does take slave mean?
Take slave means to enslave someone; to strip someone of their freedom.
What part of speech is take slave?
Take slave is a verb.
What is the past tense of take slave?
The past tense of take slave is took slave.

Words near take slave in the dictionary

  1. take sides
  2. take sign
  3. take signs
  4. take silk
  5. take sitting down
  6. take slave
  7. take soil
  8. take some air
  9. take some beating
  10. take some doing
  11. take someone at their word

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