take slave

present singular third person takes slave · participle present taking slave · past took slave · participle past taken slave

1. To enslave someone; to strip someone of their freedom.

   The Spartans were so successful at winning wars and taking slave that at one point in time Sparta was home to 9000 citizens and 250,000 slaves.

   1999, Steven Estes, Robert A. Mechikoff, Knowing Human Movement, page 98

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   His Behaviour brings to my Mind that of a certain proud beggarly Spaniard, of the Ausirian Faction, who, being taken Slave by the Algerines, came to our Conful Cole, who had an Order, from his Correspondent at Barcelona, to endeavour to redeem him.

   1731, Joseph Morgan, chapter IV, in History of Algiers, page 271

   Modest Morvith of the golden hair, that lily-browed girl in Enid's shape, made passion catch and glow to flame when in bright leaves once around my neck her white arms went to take me slave to lips I'd not known.

   1997, John Wood, The Gates of the Elect Kingdom: Poems, →ISBN, page 37

   Then Dawn said, in my head, "And what do you want me to say to our son when he asks what of you? That I stood over your dead body as they took me slave again?"

   2008, William M. Klepper, A Long Story, →ISBN, page 147

   He owned and was captain of a galley of 22 benches together with which, after suffering head injuries, he was taken slave. Soon after, he was ransomed.

   2013 May 12, Joe Zammit Ciantar, “It is Grand Master Jean De la Valette”, in Times of Malta

   According to Quinn, the name “Johnny Conqueroo” was derived from a folk hero of the same name who was taken slave only to escape and torment his capturers.

   2016 September 6, Matt Wickstrom, “Johnny Conqueroo redefining old-school rock”, in The Kentucky Kernel, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2019