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enslave

[ en-sleyv ]

verb (used with object)

enslaved, enslaving.
  1. to make a slave of; hold (someone) in slavery or bondage:

    Spartacus was enslaved by the Romans, fought as a gladiator, and later led an insurrection in 73 B.C.

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enslave

/ ɪˈɪ /

verb

  1. tr to make a slave of; reduce to slavery; subjugate
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ, noun
  • ˈ𳾱Գ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ··Գ noun
  • ·· noun
  • ·· verb (used with object) reenslaved reenslaving
  • re···Գ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of enslave1

First recorded in 1635–45; en- 1 + slave
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When one of her enslaved piglets colors a picture with crayons, she turns him into a pork chop.

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The heroine — daughter of a plantation owner — gets caught in the chaos and stumbles upon a group of formerly enslaved people from her father’s cotton fields.

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It was illegal for Black enslaved people to learn to read.

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Despite its contradictory history as a symbol of democracy built by enslaved people, it is a blameless externalization of America.

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Most people don't know it, but schools for Black people — free and enslaved — operated out in the open in the late 1700s and early 1800s.

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