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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enslave.

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Examples

  • A thing that enslaves is a monster, and monsters are not beautiful.

    The House Beautiful 2010

  • A thing that enslaves is a monster, and monsters are not beautiful.

    The House Beautiful 1910

  • I do not hesitate to assert that death itself were preferable to a condition of mind such as enslaves those who are the victims of that cruel superstitious belief known as conjuration, when from the very nature of its teachings they are cut off from all hope, and relegated to gloomy forebodings and despair.

    Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions, and KuKlux Outrages of the Carolinas. By a "Carpet-Bagger" Who Was Born and Lived There 1880

  • Having stolen the secret Krabby Patty formula from Mr. Krabs, he then enslaves the population via the distribution of free bucket helmets secretly loaded with brainwashing circuitry.

    SpongeBob's Golden Dream 2009

  • Having stolen the secret Krabby Patty formula from Mr. Krabs, he then enslaves the population via the distribution of free bucket helmets secretly loaded with brainwashing circuitry.

    SpongeBob's Golden Dream 2009

  • The medical establishment rewards conformity, enslaves doctor and patient alike by restricting choice and mandating certain practices, and uses supposedly private patient information to threaten job loss, school expulsion, and discontinuation of medical services if patients do not act in accordance with medicine's arbitrary and capricious rules.

    Larry Malerba, D.O. : Isn't It Time to Occupy Big Medicine? D.O. Larry Malerba 2012

  • The medical establishment rewards conformity, enslaves doctor and patient alike by restricting choice and mandating certain practices, and uses supposedly private patient information to threaten job loss, school expulsion, and discontinuation of medical services if patients do not act in accordance with medicine's arbitrary and capricious rules.

    Larry Malerba, D.O. : Isn't It Time to Occupy Big Medicine? D.O. Larry Malerba 2012

  • Prohibition of abortion enslaves women, by denying them control over their own body.

    Think Progress » Rep. Trent Franks: African-Americans were better off under slavery. 2010

  • The medical establishment rewards conformity, enslaves doctor and patient alike by restricting choice and mandating certain practices, and uses supposedly private patient information to threaten job loss, school expulsion, and discontinuation of medical services if patients do not act in accordance with medicine's arbitrary and capricious rules.

    Larry Malerba, D.O. : Isn't It Time to Occupy Big Medicine? D.O. Larry Malerba 2012

  • The medical establishment rewards conformity, enslaves doctor and patient alike by restricting choice and mandating certain practices, and uses supposedly private patient information to threaten job loss, school expulsion, and discontinuation of medical services if patients do not act in accordance with medicine's arbitrary and capricious rules.

    Larry Malerba, D.O. : Isn't It Time to Occupy Big Medicine? D.O. Larry Malerba 2012

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