Etymology

enthrall

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Today it means: To hold spellbound. Full definition →

Middle English enthrallen
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromenthrallen
  2. English todayenthrall

From Middle English enthrallen. By surface analysis, en- + thrall.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.