enslave
verbEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- Proto-Slavic *slověninъder. Byzantine Greek Σκλᾰ́βος (Sklắbos)der. Late Latin Sclavus Medieval Latin sclavusbor. Old French esclavebor. Middle English sclave English slave English enslave From en- + slave.
- derived from esclavebor
- derived from en- English en- Proto-Slavic *slověninъder
Definitions
To make subservient
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.
- 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.
- Selling them whiskey and taking their gold. Enslaving the young and destroying the old.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at enslave. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at enslave. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at enslave
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA