ENSLAVE Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

enslave

verb

Definition of enslave next

as in to annihilate

to take control of and assert authority over

—usually used as (be) enslaved Her ancestors were enslaved during the war.

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Recent Examples of enslave Its central figure is Fátima, enslaved by Don Gaspar, a blind, alcoholic marquis who controls the island’s freshwater well. —

Callum McLennan, Variety, 11 May 2026 The story is built around Kitana’s childhood trauma of losing her father to the evil Shao Kahn (Martyn Ford), who has taken over her home realm of Edenia, enslaving her mother as his zombie consort, Sindel (Ana Thu Nguyen). —

Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 8 May 2026 Many early American women both free and enslaved completed unpaid labor in homes, but their labor was a central force in the national economic growth of the early 19th century. —

Emily J. Whitted, The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2026 Some Connecticut towns have brought history out in the open by researching and sharing information about its history with regard to enslaving people. —

Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 27 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for enslave

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Instead, it is filled with a froth of virtual particles becoming real in pairs, waving to us, annihilating each other, and sinking back into the soup of virtual particles.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026
Unfortunately, any of the giant armada of smaller objects tens of meters wide is still large enough to annihilate Beijing, Lagos, or New York – objects such as the one that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013 – and those are far harder to detect.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 May 2026