Enslave

Definition: Enslave

Enslave

Verb

1. Make a slave of; bring into servitude.

Date "enslave" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Note: Enslave \En*slave"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Enslaved; present participle verb or noun Enslaving.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Subjection	Break in, tame; subject, subjugate; master; tread down, tread under foot; weigh down; drag at one's chariot wheels; reduce to subjection, reduce to slavery; enthrall, inthrall, bethrall; enslave, lead captive; take into custody; (restrain); rule; drive into a corner, hold at the sword's point; keep under; hold in bondage, hold in leading strings, hold in swaddling clothes.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Enslave

English words defined with "enslave": Beslave ♦ Enslaving, Enthrall ♦ Inthrall ♦ Mancipate ♦ Reenslave ♦ Warrior ant. (references)

Specialty definitions using "enslave": Excommunication. (references)

Etymologies containing "enslave": Beslave. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	The weak enslave themselves. (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) Enslave the human race! (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)
Lyrics	That sin may not enslave us ("Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord"; performing artist: Boney M)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A Techno-Tyrannical Society - Rasta Prophesy: Babylon's Genocidal Plan to Enslave Humanity (reference) Drugs That Enslave (reference) How To Mentally Dominate And Sexually Enslave Women (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Enslave the Weak (reference) From the Cradle to Enslave [EP] [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Author	Quotation
David Garrick	Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
Henri Frederic Amiel	Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Henry Peter	Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Thomas Paine	We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	To be free from such force is the only security of my preservation; and reason bids me look on him, as an enemy to my preservation, who would take away that freedom which is the fence to it; so that he who makes an attempt to enslave me, thereby puts himself into a state of war with me. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	EXCOMMUNICATION, n. This "excommunication" is a word In speech ecclesiastical oft heard, And means the damning, with bell, book and candle, Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal -- A rite permitting Satan to enslave him Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him. Gat Huckle
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Enslave" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 88.46% of the time. "Enslave" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	88.46%	23	72,767
Lexical Verb (base form)	11.54%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	26	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "enslave"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		skllavëroj, robëroj (captivate, steal), nënshtroj (master, reduce, subdue, subject, subjugate, submit, subordinate, vanquish). (various references)

Arabic		‏إستعبد (slave, subjugate, yoke). (various references)

Bulgarian		заробвам (enfetter, slave, thrall), поробвам (enthral, subjugate, thrall), пленявам (captivate, capture, charm, enchant, fascinate, ravish, snow, take captive, take prisoner). (various references)

Chinese		奴役 . (various references)

Czech		zotroèit (slave, thrall), ujařmit (subjugate), porobit (subjugate). (various references)

Farsi		غلام کردن , بنده کردن . (various references)

Finnish		orjuuttaa. (various references)

French		asservir. (various references)

German		versklaven. (various references)

Greek		υποδουλώνω (subjugate). (various references)

Hebrew		לשעב�" (mortgage, subjugate, subordinate), ל�"עבי�" (employ). (various references)

Hungarian		rabszolgasorba dönt (to vassal), leigáz (feudalize, oppress, overpower, subdue, subject, subjugate, to bring to heels, to bring under, to conquer, to enslave, to subject, to vanquish). (various references)

Indonesian		mengungkungi (put shackles on), memperhamba, memperbudak (creat a slave, enthrall). (various references)

Italian		asservire (slave, to override). (various references)

Manx		cur fo deyrsnys, cur fo bondiaght. (various references)

Norwegian		gjøre til slave. (various references)

Pig Latin		enslaveay

Portuguese		ensilar (to ensile). (various references)

Romanian		subjuga (bend, captivate, conquer, master, overmaster, subdue, subject, subjugate, yoke), robi (enthrall, exploit, fascinate, hack, slave), aservi (enthral), apleca (be inclined, bend, bow, hang down, humiliate, incline, lower, slope, stoop, submit, surrender, tilt, tilt over), înrobi (beslave, bring under subjection, enthral, enthrall, yoke). (various references)

Russian		порабощать (enthral, subjugate, thrall). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zarobiti (captivate, take prisoner), porobiti, podjarmiti (overbear). (various references)

Spanish		esclavizar (enthrall). (various references)

Swedish		förslava. (various references)

Thai		ทำให้เป็นทาสและอ้างสิทธิการเป็นเจ้าของ. (various references)

Turkish		esir etmek (enthral, enthrall), köle yapmak. (various references)

Ukranian		робити рабом, поневолювати (beslave, enfetter, enthral, enthrall, slave, subjugate). (various references)

Welsh		caethiwo (bind, confine). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	addixistis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "enslave": enslaved, enslavement, enslavements, enslaver, enslavers, enslaves. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Enslave" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ensellure, esclave, Eslava, eyslate, inslave, nesaf. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "enslave" (pronounced enslā"v)
4	-s l ā" v	slave.
3	-l ā" v	lave.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: leavens.
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-n-s-v"
	-1 letter: aneles, leaven, leaves, navels, sleave, veenas.
	-2 letters: anele, avens, easel, eaves, elans, elves, evens, lanes, laves, leans, lease, leave, lenes, lense, navel, naves, neves, salve, selva, seven, slave, vales, valse, vanes, veals, veena, venae, venal.
	-3 letters: alee, ales, anes, aves, ease, eave, eels, elan, else, even, eves, lane, lase, lave, lavs, lean, leas, lees, lens, leva, nave, neve, sale, sane, save, seal, seel, seen, sene, vale, vane, vans, vase, veal, vees, vela, vena.
	-4 letters: ale, als, ane, ave, eel, els, ens, eve, las, lav, lea, lee, lev, nae, nee, sae, sal, sea, see, sel, sen, van, vas, vee.
	-5 letters: ae, al, an, as, el, en, es, la, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-n-s-v"
	+1 letter: enclaves, enslaved, enslaver, enslaves, evangels, valences.
	+2 letters: aliveness, endleaves, enslavers, evenfalls, lavenders, levanters, valencies, vendables, vernacles.
	+3 letters: convalesce, covalences, elevations, evangelism, evangelist, intervales, investable, leavenings, longleaves, ovalnesses, overcleans, overlearns, prevalents, ravelments, relevances, shinleaves, valentines, venalities, venialness, ventilates, vernalizes, vestmental, villenages.
	+4 letters: alivenesses, cantilevers, convalesced, convalesces, conversable, covalencies, eigenvalues, enslavement, equivalents, evangelisms, evangelists, evangelizes, everlasting, expansively, heavenliest, interleaves, livableness, lovableness, movableness, overhandles, overmantels, prevalences, relevancies, revealments, revelations, reversional, servantless, undervalues, villanelles, vulneraries, wavelengths.
	+5 letters: allusiveness, alternatives, ambivalences, convalescent, deliverances, enslavements, enviableness, equivalences, evangelicals, evangelistic, everlastings, heavenliness, intervalleys, irrelevances, lavishnesses, malevolences, nonrelatives, overanalyses, overanalyzes, overbalances, overexplains, overinflates, polyvalences, provableness, surveillance, transversely, universalize, unobservable, unresolvable, valuableness, variableness, venialnesses, verticalness, vespertilian, villainesses, violableness, voidableness, volatileness.
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