enslaving
present participle ofenslave
enslave
verb[Toften passive]
uk/ɪnˈsleɪv/us/ɪnˈsleɪv/toforcesomeone toremainin abadsituation:
Women in thisregionwere enslaved bypoverty.
to make aslaveof someone:
The earlysettlersenslaved orkilledmuch of thenativepopulation.
literary
tocontrolsomeone'sactions,thoughts,emotions, orlifecompletely:
We areincreasinglyenslaved bytechnology.
Guilt enslaved her.
Capturing or taking possession of things
- -grabbing
- apprehend
- apprehension
- arrogate
- at bayidiom
- cage
- capture
- catch
- clutch
- collar
- entangle
- get/lay/putyourhands onsomeoneidiom
- grab
- grabber
- repo
- repo man
- repossess
- seize
- sequester
- sequestration
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Treating people or animals badly
People who serve other people
Controlling and being in charge
Examplesofenslaving
enslaving
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The power ofenslavingpeople is purely local, and depends on local laws of certain places.
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It is not clear thatenslavinga person and releasing him right before reproduction violates a duty to his progeny.
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The framework is basically geographical byenslavingnation.
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To argue that a particular kind of worker under no circumstances has a right to strike is to make an argument forenslavingsuch a worker.
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In the present article we do not claim that these informational macroscopic variables are order parameters per se, exhibiting properties such as circular causality,enslaving, or time-scale conventions.
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But they areenslavingthe people, because monopoly always leads to enslavement.
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They are a constant source of criminality, oppressing andenslavingpeople, endangering the life and limb even of children.
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There are three respects, and only three, in regard to which it is said we areenslavingthe doctor.
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Under the term "mandated territory," you find a new means forenslavingother people and interfering in other people's countries and dominions.
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It is all very well for you to get into a frenzy aboutenslavingand robbing other nations, but you are forgetting your own destiny.
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They are something of the order of television, or it might almost be atomic energy, capable either of enriching or ofenslavinghuman society.
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Twenty-five years ago we wished to reform ourselves and to do what we could to relieve our nation from the curse of thisenslavinghabit.
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Instead of being a benefit to the worker it is merely a machine forenslavinglabour, the conditions of which at the present time are infinitely worse.
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Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering andenslavingtheir fellow man.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He took pleasure fromenslavingthe bodies of the former kings as his dark knights.
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