Word Meanings - ENSLAVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENSLAVE)

• Enamor
• Captivate
• fascinate
• enslave
• charm
• endear
• bewitch
• enchain
• Enchain
• Bind
• fetter
• manacle
• Inthrall
• Confine
• cage
• imprison
• incarcerate
• intomb

Related words: (words related to ENSLAVE)

• INTHRALL
  To reduce to bondage or servitude; to make a thrall, slave, vassal, or captive of; to enslave. She soothes, but never can inthrall my mind. Prior.
• INCARCERATE
  1. To imprison; to confine in a jail or priso 2. To confine; to shut up or inclose; to hem in. Incarcerated hernia , hernia in which the constriction can not be easily reduced.
• CAPTIVATE
  1. To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. Their woes whom fortune captivates. Shak. 2. To acquire ascendancy over by reason of some art or attraction; to fascinate; to charm; as, Cleopatra captivated Antony; the orator captivated all hearts.
• ENSLAVEMENT
  The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South.
• ENDEAR
  1. To make dear or beloved. "To be endeared to a king." Shak. 2. To raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive. King James I. .
• BEWITCHING
  Having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming. -- Be*witch"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*witch"ing*ness, n.
• ENSLAVEDNESS
  State of being enslaved.
• BEWITCHERY
  The power of bewitching or fascinating; bewitchment; charm; fascination. There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in words. South.
• FETTERLESS
  Free from fetters. Marston.
• ENAMOR
  To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; -- with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science. Passionately enamored of this shadow of a dream. W. Irving.
• IMPRISON
  1. To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine. He imprisoned was in chains remediles. Spenser. 2. To limit, restrain, or confine in any way. Try to imprison the resistless wind. Dryden. Syn. -- To incarcerate; confine;
• ENDEAREDNESS
  State of being endeared.
• CHARMLESS
  Destitute of charms. Swift.
• CHARMER
  1. One who charms, or has power to charm; one who uses the power of enchantment; a magician. Deut. xviii. 11. 2. One who delights and attracts the affections.
• CONFINELESS
  Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
• INTOMBMENT
  See ENTOMBMENT
• MANACLE
  A handcuff; a shackle for the hand or wrist; -- usually in the plural. Doctrine unto fools is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles on the right hand. Ecclus. xxi. 19. (more info) manacle, L. manicula a little hand, dim. of manus hand; cf.
• INTOMB
  To place in a tomb; to bury; to entomb. See Entomb.
• ENDEAREDLY
  With affection or endearment; dearly.
• IMPRISONMENT
  The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint. His sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• REIMPRISON
  To imprison again.
• BECHARM
  To charm; to captivate.
• REENSLAVE
  To enslave again.
• DISENCHAINED
  Freed from restraint; unrestrained. E. A. Poe.