(v. t.) To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence.
Example Sentences:
(1) They fit with his continuation of the regime’s systemic human rights abuses, its pitiless prison labour camp system including enslavement, forced abortions and systemic rape, its abductions and foreign hostage-taking, and its aggressive defiance of its neighbours.
(2) "The feudals have enslaved the people for generations," he says.
(3) Thoreau's recognitions endeared him to the revolutionaries of the 1960s: he saw the violence behind the established order, the enslaving nature of private property, and - a trend even stronger now than 40 years ago - the media's substitution of "the news" for private reality.
(4) The first time you use these drugs they damage you, and if you become enslaved to drugs, your life will be destroyed,” he said.
(5) Did the rape, enslavement and summary execution of thousands of people and the murder of hostages not give it away?
(6) An emotional Obama ran through a litany of Isis human-rights abuses, from rape to enslavement, calling them “cowardly acts of violence.” In a vague reference to Americans held captive by Isis or near its path in Iraq, Obama said the US would “do everything we can to protect our people,” a formulation that has preceded US military action in the past.
(7) You list decapitations, mutilations, rapes, defenestrations and sex enslavements.
(8) "It is not unusual for people who have been 'rescued' to psychologically identify with their enslavers."
(9) In the Gulf, the International Trade Union Confederation estimates that 2.4 million domestic workers are enslaved (pdf).
(10) We see it in the people who have forgotten their encounter with the Lord ... in those who depend completely on their here and now, on their passions, whims and manias, in those who build walls around themselves and become enslaved to the idols that they have built with their own hands.” 7) Being rivals or boastful.
(11) Poland, however, was "enslaved" by Moscow and he is unabashed about his purpose, lecturing British and Nato military officers about Poland's wartime past, about its home army, the biggest non-communist guerrilla movement in Europe fighting the Nazis.
(12) There were incredible acts of bravery that helped ensure that this and other nations were not enslaved.
(13) In 2014, a UN report found that the North Korean terror machine was without contemporary parallel, with enslavement, forced labour, torture, rape, compulsory abortions, collective punishment and executions.
(14) It calculated that more than 4% of North Korea’s population is enslaved, with Uzbekistan and Qatar the other countries with the highest prevalence of modern slavery per capita.
(15) If power corrupts, powerful inequality indebts and ultimately enslaves.
(16) When one woman tapped her on the shoulder and requested the singer stop, Madonna is reported to have remarked: "It's for business … enslaver!"
(17) This leaves the men and women effectively working for pennies, while simultaneously ensuring they remain reliant on the people enslaving them.
(18) As Blair of all people understood, political parties die when they become enslaved to a dogma.
(19) It’s no mystery where these assumptions came from: if you enslave people, break up their families, humiliate, brutalize and denigrate them and spend far more on their incarceration than their education, then the mere prospect of them reaching their full human potential will strike fear in you.
(20) Abraham Lincoln gave speeches about the civil war in which he said, in essence, "We've brought this on ourselves by enslaving Americans."
Own
Definition:
(v. t.) To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love.
(a.) Belonging to; belonging exclusively or especially to; peculiar; -- most frequently following a possessive pronoun, as my, our, thy, your, his, her, its, their, in order to emphasize or intensify the idea of property, peculiar interest, or exclusive ownership; as, my own father; my own composition; my own idea; at my own price.
(a.) To hold as property; to have a legal or rightful title to; to be the proprietor or possessor of; to possess; as, to own a house.