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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
enslave
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Many Americans are enslaved in credit-card debt.
▪ The Tahltans often enslaved the women of other tribes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After a long period of self-examination las Casas committed himself to acting as an advocate for the enslaved natives.
▪ At the age of sixteen, he was abducted from his hometown of Kilpatrick and enslaved in Ireland.
▪ How did men seize control everywhere and suppress women, keeping them ignorant and enslaved?
▪ It is enslaved to the motor car, surrounded by great road ramps, and dominated by an unpleasant multi-storey car-park.
▪ It reduces women's choice in terms of relationships to living alone or being enslaved in a marriage.
▪ It was Anthony whom she had enslaved, never Caesar.
▪ Taking advantage of its remoteness from the administrative centre of the Imperium they had enslaved the native inhabitants.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enslave

Enslave \En*slave"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enslaved; p. pr. & vb. n. Enslaving.] To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence.

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.
--Milton.

Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will.
--Cowper.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
enslave

1640s, from en- (1) "make, make into" + slave (n.). Related: Enslaved; enslaving.

Wiktionary
enslave

vb. (context transitive English) To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.

WordNet
enslave

v. make a slave of; bring into servitude

Usage examples of "enslave".

And true, if Wyrd and I had been a lengthy merchant train or a foreign army on the march, the Alamanni would have regarded us as intruders, and attacked and looted us, and either killed or enslaved us.

She reminded herself that many of the blacks who had been enslaved in antebellum America had been strong, powerful men as well.

Defeating the Atlantians, Myrine executed all the men and enslaved the women and children.

One story is that an ancient Ubar of Ar, capturing the daughter of a fleeing, defeated enemy in a field of dinas there enslaved her, stripping her by the sword, ravishing her and putting chains upon her.

The Danians and the Mori enslaved people who were captured in war until they were ransomed or gave service for some kind of blood debt.

Hispanic term for whatever interior disorder drives the addict back again and again to the enslaving Substance is tecato gusano, which apparently connotes some kind of interior psychic worm that cannot be sated or killed.

The Furies would know that the Federation was no small primitive planet, to be awed and enslaved by beings who thought themselves more powerful.

Martian shellfish, but the ancestral Hets enslaved the Hands and used the iron filaments as general manipulators.

I understand it, Bradley Johansson always claimed he was enslaved by the alien.

And when Bradley Johansson delved into the secrets of the ship, he awoke the Starflyer and was enslaved by it.

Whatever part Vicki Turner had played in that struggle to convince Americans that the syringes were not a Sleepless plot to enslave Livers, to convince Americans to stop killing each other over radical changes in biology, to convince Americans to stop attacking Washington because, now, they could-whatever Vicki had done, it really had cost her all her credit.

The Madi, with no more consciousness than a clever dog, were enslaved by the pattern of their lives.

The Mamelucos, finding no more Indians to enslave, fell on the two towns of Villa Rica and Ciudad Real, destroyed them utterly, and forced the inhabitants to flee for refuge into Paraguay.

Han Chinese and Miao, or Russians and Bashkirs, were also vastly less than those between White Americans and American Indians or newly enslaved Blacks.

I know that when I die, if my power dies with me, whatever I have built will fall apart That even if we rid Death lands of the norms who have enslaved and butchered us, the new people will have no future.