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# bondage

«bondage» in Mova's school dictionary: **being a slave or being completely controlled by someone…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

Bondage is being a slave or being completely controlled by someone or something, so you are not free. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bondage/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, bondage means being held down by a cruel ruler or by fear, and freedom ends it

### examples

- The people were set free from bondage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bondage/#x1)
- The boy freed them from the bondage of fear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bondage/#x2)
- Nobody wants to live in bondage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bondage/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.555/)
- [I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.167/)
- [And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.686/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bondage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bondage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.