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taken slave

taken slave is the past participle of take slave.

Meaning of take slave

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

Questions about taken slave

What is taken slave the past participle of?
Taken slave is the past participle of take slave.

Words near taken slave in the dictionary

  1. taken ship
  2. taken shipping
  3. taken short
  4. taken sides
  5. taken silk
  6. taken slave
  7. taken soil
  8. taken some beating
  9. taken some doing
  10. taken someone at their word
  11. taken someone down the garden path

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