Dictionary Entry
To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.
In a Sentence
“The migrants will be enslaved once they're no longer useful to the oligarchs; make no mistake about that.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. enslavedafricans enslavedpeople enslavedafrican enslavedwomen enslaved
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Poetry examples for “enslaved”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →For weary centuries despised, oppressed,
Enslaved and lynched, denied a human place
In the great life line of the Christian West;
Read full poem →Loud he sang the psalm of David!
He, a Negro and enslaved,
Sang of Israel's victory,
Read full poem →much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever