enslave

English

Alternative forms

• inslave (archaic)

Etymology

en- +‎ slave

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsleɪv/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -eɪv

Verb

enslave (third-person singular simple present enslaves, present participle enslaving, simple past and past participle enslaved)

1. (transitive) To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.

   The migrants will be enslaved once they're no longer useful to the oligarchs; make no mistake about that.

   • 1848 November – 1850 December​, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], OCLC 2057953:

     He and his polite friends would dress themselves out with as much care in order to go and dine at each other’s rooms, as other folks would who were going to enslave a mistress.

   • 1982, Iron Maiden (lyrics and music), “Run to the Hills”:

     Selling them whiskey and taking their gold.
     Enslaving the young and destroying the old.

Synonyms

• beslave, bethrall, enslaven

Related terms

• slave
• slavened
• slavery

Translations

to make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall

• Arabic: اِسْتَعْبَدَ‎ (istaʿbada), اِسْتَرَقَّ‎ (istaraqqa)
• Armenian: ստրկացնել (hy) (strkacʿnel)
• Azerbaijani: qul etmək, əsarət altına almaq, kölə halına salmaq (figuratively), kölələşdirmək, qullaşdırmaq
• Belarusian: заняво́льваць impf (zanjavólʹvacʹ), заняво́ліць pf (zanjavólicʹ)
• Bulgarian: поро́бвам (bg) impf (poróbvam), поро́бя pf (poróbja)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: esclavitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奴役 (zh) (núyì)

• Czech: zotročovat impf, zotročit pf
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: knechten (nl)
• Esperanto: sklavigi
• Estonian: orjastama
• Finnish: orjuuttaa (fi)
• French: asservir (fr), esclavagiser (fr)
• Galician: escravizar (gl)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: versklaven (de)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌸𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽 (anaþiwan)
• Greek: υποδουλώνω (el) (ypodoulóno)

  Ancient: δουλόω (doulóō)

• Hungarian: rabszolgává tesz
• Irish: daor

• Italian: asservire (it)
• Japanese: 奴隷にする (どれいにする, dorei ni suru)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 노예로 만들다 (noye-ro mandeulda)
• Macedonian: поробува impf (porobuva), пороби pf (porobi)
• Maori: whakamōkai, whakataurekareka, whakapononga
• Middle English: thrallen
• Polish: zniewalać impf, zniewolić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: escravizar (pt)
• Romanian: aservi (ro), robi (ro), înrobi (ro)
• Russian: порабоща́ть (ru) impf (poraboščátʹ), поработи́ть (ru) pf (porabotítʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: daor
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: поробља́вати impf, поробљи́вати impf, поро̀бити pf

  Roman: porobljávati (sh) impf, porobljívati (sh) impf, poròbiti (sh) pf

• Slovak: zotročovať impf, zotročiť pf
• Slovene: zasužnjevati impf, zasužnjiti pf
• Spanish: esclavizar (es)
• Swedish: förslava (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: понево́лювати impf (ponevóljuvaty), понево́лити pf (ponevólyty)

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