enslave
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definition
verb
If you have a religion, a belief system or a traditional practice that enslaves people, puts them in servitude and reduces their dignity, then you violate our national constitution.
make (someone) a slave.
example
He had sworn when he was seven years old that no one would ever 'enslave' him again.
Tyrants rise and 'enslave' the spirit of freedom.
Why should we support religiously intolerant regimes that virtually 'enslave' women and persecute nonbelievers to death?
It was perfectly acceptable, or at least conceivable, to make war on, exterminate, or 'enslave' colored people.
The few humans on top have chosen to 'enslave' the masses and keep them ignorant.
Adams, the farmer's son who despised slavery and practiced the kind of personal economy and plain living commonly upheld as the American way, was scorned as an aristocrat who, if he could, would 'enslave' the common people.
It was given the freedom to 'enslave' itself, not true freedom to develop.
Just as they are bond slaves to sin, so they seek to 'enslave' us similarly.
For example, my ancestors came to this country during the wave of mass immigration in the early part of the 1900s - they certainly didn't 'enslave' anybody and neither did their ancestors.
Unicef estimates that up to 200,000 children are 'enslaved' in West Africa.
His fighters laid siege to a country's cities, starved and 'enslaved' its people, and sowed its fields with mines.
A free person is 'enslaved' neither to the sheer will of another nor to his own appetites and passions.
They had believed in a governing philosophy which 'enslaved' even as it proclaimed a transcendent freedom.
Trying to identify the persons or objects toward which the gratitude should be directed could be an 'enslaving' project, so why not enjoy your freedom instead?
In fact, I suspect he'd go on an extended rant about how the evil totalitarian government was 'enslaving' him and stealing his TV or some such.
Both stories focus on the ways in which 'enslaved' people created community and resisted their oppression.
Pleasure seeking often 'enslaves' people in a vicious cycle of addiction…
It continues its raids, terrorizing villages, killing civilians and capturing and 'enslaving' children.
Confronted now with the possibility of ridding the world of a tyrant, they opt for further 'enslavement' of his subjects.
We are 'enslaved' by a visionless government who is mortgaging our future deeper and deeper while they all get rich.
But his are cries of impotent despair against the master who has 'enslaved' him.
Practically 'enslaving' me, killing my parents, ruining my estate, and refusing to tell me whether my only brother is still living is kindly?
Nine children and three women told similar stories of 'enslavement' and brutalization, including rape.
He seems at this point to affirm the religious perspective of his 'enslavers' : He condemns himself and assumes that he is unworthy, even as he prays for divine deliverance.
Plato remarks in the Republic that the great liberator is also the great 'enslaver' : and this was the hard political text learned by Romantic poets through most of Coleridge's lifetime.
I concede, therefore, that he might have 'enslaved' the Irish prisoners of war.
He said today's youth had to pursue freedom in order to avoid being 'enslaved' by crime and drugs.
Murdered and 'enslaved' children, no matter what their color or gender or faith, suffer because of our failings.
Were not most of the crowd 'enslaved' by sex, drugs and rock-n-roll?
It's you and your ancestors who got rich in the first place by murdering, stealing land, 'enslaving' people and animals, stealing and selling cultures and destroying the environment.
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