enslave
ਗ਼ੁਲਾਮ
definition
verb
If you have a religion, a belief system or a traditional practice that enslaves people, puts them in servitude and reduces their dignity, then you violate our national constitution.
make (someone) a slave.
example
The few humans on top have chosen to 'enslave' the masses and keep them ignorant.
It was given the freedom to 'enslave' itself, not true freedom to develop.
Adams, the farmer's son who despised slavery and practiced the kind of personal economy and plain living commonly upheld as the American way, was scorned as an aristocrat who, if he could, would 'enslave' the common people.
He had sworn when he was seven years old that no one would ever 'enslave' him again.
Why should we support religiously intolerant regimes that virtually 'enslave' women and persecute nonbelievers to death?
For example, my ancestors came to this country during the wave of mass immigration in the early part of the 1900s - they certainly didn't 'enslave' anybody and neither did their ancestors.
Tyrants rise and 'enslave' the spirit of freedom.
It was perfectly acceptable, or at least conceivable, to make war on, exterminate, or 'enslave' colored people.
Just as they are bond slaves to sin, so they seek to 'enslave' us similarly.
Murdered and 'enslaved' children, no matter what their color or gender or faith, suffer because of our failings.
Thirty years of totalitarianism reduced people's capacity to think, producing a society in love with its own 'enslavement' .
The ‘bully’ survived all of his 'enslavers' and turned the barren Sinai Desert into a fertile, agricultural area, not being hand in glove with anybody, as explained in the eighth stanza.
If you are 'enslaved' , you cannot go anywhere of your own free will.
It's you and your ancestors who got rich in the first place by murdering, stealing land, 'enslaving' people and animals, stealing and selling cultures and destroying the environment.
They had believed in a governing philosophy which 'enslaved' even as it proclaimed a transcendent freedom.
Sin, too, is a very powerful and cruel tyrant, dominating and ruling over the whole world, capturing and 'enslaving' all men.
Pleasure seeking often 'enslaves' people in a vicious cycle of addiction…
Both stories focus on the ways in which 'enslaved' people created community and resisted their oppression.
He said today's youth had to pursue freedom in order to avoid being 'enslaved' by crime and drugs.
It continues its raids, terrorizing villages, killing civilians and capturing and 'enslaving' children.
If so, it sounds as though these other people are 'enslaving' this woman: they get to run her life for her.
No 'enslavement' and no tyranny are as ruthless and as demanding as slavery to physical desires and passions.
In fact, I suspect he'd go on an extended rant about how the evil totalitarian government was 'enslaving' him and stealing his TV or some such.
But his are cries of impotent despair against the master who has 'enslaved' him.
Confronted now with the possibility of ridding the world of a tyrant, they opt for further 'enslavement' of his subjects.
I support a troop's right to disobey his or her commanding officer, to desert, to subvert the system that 'enslaves' him.
Burning this important resource (on the farm or at the power plant) 'enslaves' the farmer to a cycle of increasing fertiliser use and decreasing productivity.
Trying to identify the persons or objects toward which the gratitude should be directed could be an 'enslaving' project, so why not enjoy your freedom instead?
Earlier this year, three soldiers and paramilitaries were convicted of mass rape and of sexually 'enslaving' women.
A free person is 'enslaved' neither to the sheer will of another nor to his own appetites and passions.
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