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Enslaving

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.

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enslaving

vb. (present participle of enslave English)

Usage examples of "enslaving".

But you, you grotesque little atavists, stare blindly at the skyscrapers and smokestacks around you and dream of enslaving the material providers who are scientists, inventors, industrialists.

The stranger bursts the prison (a symbol of this enslaving world) and then systematically destroys the king by driving him insane, and in a public way that not only abolishes him but [also] turns the king into a laughingstock for the multitude that his reign has oppressed.

The chink in the armor of the enslaving and deluding projected world is narrow, small, and difficult, but within the terms of this model it can be defined: Restoration to what is conceived to be our original divine state enters, so to speak, via the road of disobedience to that which, however much coercive power it exerts over us, is counterfeit.

There is now nothing standing in the way of your enslaving the entire world, so why bother?

Not wanting to let go of them, that too we can understand-but disowning them, enslaving them?

Then, when the Midgarders discover that enslaving new people draws giant raiding parties, they will finally begin to exile all instead of enslaving some.

His soldiers are rampaging up through the New World, murdering, enslaving our people.

You all have made a decision to at least try to succeed, to try to rid yourselves of the brutes killing and enslaving your people.

We must recognize the fact that the artifact, although enslaving us in a counterfeit world, is teaching us.

As much as he hated me for enslaving him, he accepted that his servitude was the prize I won in our contest.

He did have some useful things, of course, but nothing I could not have found out without enslaving myself to a ferghun.