inslave

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A form of enslave — To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.

Scrabble 10

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verbinslave (third-person singular simple present inslaves, present participle inslaving, simple past and past participle inslaved)

present singular third person inslaves · participle present inslaving · participle past inslaved · past inslaved

  1. archaicArchaic form of enslave.

    Thus Sin is the House of Bondage. Israel was not so inslaved in the Iron Furnace, as the Sinner is by Sin.

    1741, Thomas Watson, A Body of Practical Divinity
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    But if, elated with the idea of her own strength, G. Britain should ever determine to inslave America, it is more than probable that she would have more difficulties to encounter with than she at present apprehends.

    1766, The Scots Magazine, volume 28, page 691

    Are you sensible what you are doing, when, for some small favour, or sordid gratification, you sell your votes to such as want to inslave your country […]

    1853, William D. Cooke, Revolutionary History of North Carolina, in three lectures

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