thrall
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Synonyms: Noun
bondman (also bondsman), chattel, slave
Antonyms: Noun
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I'm not your thrall, so you'll have to pick up after yourself. a people who still bear the scars of having been in thrall for so many yearsRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
In thrall to their progressive base, the Democrats are not grounded by any semblance of pragmatism. — Jay Cost, National Review, "Our Presidential Nomination Process Is Nuts," 1 July 2019 Packer is frank about all that but remains in thrall. — Thomas Powers, The New York Review of Books, "The Fog of Ambition," 6 June 2019 Octavian denounced Antony as a man in the thrall of a foreign queen and waged war on the couple. — National Geographic, "Who was Augustus Caesar?," 20 May 2019 Even when a third party (Christopher Innvar) appears on the scene and sets the usual romantic complications in motion, Alice and Edgar remain tightly focused on one another, neither willing nor able to break the spell that holds them in thrall. — Terry Teachout, WSJ, "‘The Dance of Death’ and ‘Mies Julie’ Reviews: Strindberg—Sort Of," 14 Feb. 2019 At the time, Karl was in the thrall of the madcap Princesse Diane de Beauvau Craon who was the establishment’s defacto hostess. — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, "Hamish Bowles Remembers the Unparalleled Energy, Wicked Wit, and Insatiable Curiosity of Karl Lagerfeld," 20 Feb. 2019 And all of them are just as much in karmic thrall as the grandees who came before them, undone by ambition, rashness and cosmic retribution. — Daniel Akst, WSJ, "‘The Hazards of Good Fortune’ Review: An Unforgiven Overreacher," 5 Oct. 2018 But Toronto offered two things that no one else could: The NHL's best young core, and the thrall of home. — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, "In Joining an Up-and-Coming Maple Leafs Squad, John Tavares Gets to Live Out His Dream," 2 July 2018 Mussorgsky’s 1869 first version is a spare, two-hour work that was shockingly pointed politically, a portrait of a tsar for whom the thrall of power cannot overcome the buffeting by a fickle public, court intrigue and his own guilt. — Mark Swed, latimes.com, "Searching for Russia's soul, then and now, in 'Boris Godunov'," 19 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'thrall.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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