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# enslave

«enslave» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make them slaves: owned by others and forced to work…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (enslave, enslaves, enslaved, enslaving)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To enslave people is to make them slaves: owned by others and forced to work without pay or freedom. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enslave/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enslave/#x1)
- Millions of Africans were enslaved and taken across the Atlantic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enslave/#x2)
- Harriet Tubman helped enslaved people escape to freedom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enslave/#x3)
- It is wrong to enslave anyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enslave/#x4)
- Don't let video games enslave you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enslave/#x5)
- Enslaved workers had no wages and no rights. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [Sugar cane plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean were worked mainly by enslaved Africans, in brutal conditions where many died young.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/15/)
- [In 1621 the Dutch East India Company killed or enslaved most people of the Banda Islands to control nutmeg.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/29-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean/17/)
- [Enslaved people resisted in many ways, from revolts on ships to running away and building free communities.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade/16/)
- [Mediterranean galleys were often rowed by prisoners, captives and enslaved people, on both Christian and Muslim sides.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/16/)
- [European colonisers forced Indigenous people to mine silver in Peru and Bolivia, and enslaved Africans to dig gold in Brazil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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