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# enslave

verb (enslave, enslaves, enslaved, enslaving)

«enslave» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To enslave people is to make them slaves: owned by others and forced to work without pay or freedom. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enslave/#m1)
2. To enslave someone is to control them so completely that they are not free, like a habit. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enslave/#m2)

### In the lessons

History lessons (enslaved Africans, the slave trade, abolition), ethics (slavery is deeply wrong), Bible (the Israelites enslaved in Egypt), and everyday talk about habits.

### Examples

- The Israelites were enslaved in Egypt, the Bible tells. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enslave/#x1)
- Millions of Africans were enslaved and taken across the Atlantic. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enslave/#x2)
- Harriet Tubman helped enslaved people escape to freedom. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enslave/#x3)
- It is wrong to enslave anyone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enslave/#x4)
- Don't let video games enslave you. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enslave/#x5)
- Enslaved workers had no wages and no rights. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enslave/#x6)
- From that hour he found that instead of obtaining revenge on the Stag, he had enslaved himself to the service of man. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enslave/#x7)

### Note

Historians often say «enslaved people» rather than «slaves» to show they were people first. Noun: enslavement; opposite: free, liberate, emancipate.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «enslave» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enslave/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«enslave» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/enslave.html) on Mova free.