ENSLAVED Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

Definition of enslaved

as in indentured

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verb

past tense of enslave

as in defeated

to take control of and assert authority over

—usually used as (be) enslaved Her ancestors were enslaved during the war.

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Adjective

And the Hemings family was an enslaved family, an enslaved Black family on Monticello's plantation who - which included Sally Hemings, who was the daughter of Elizabeth Hemings and John Wayles. — Terry Gross, NPR, 14 Aug. 2026 Historian Jennifer Morgan similarly contends that enslaved women’s reproductive capacities were essential for the economic logic of hereditary racial slavery. — Kari Traylor, JSTOR Daily, 29 July 2026

Verb

Historians began to construct a rich and sobering narrative of the lives of both enslavers and enslaved, as well as a portrait of the system that bound them together. — Drew Gilpin Faust, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026 Keanu Reeves stars as hacker Neo, who discovers that humanity’s been enslaved by a malevolent cyber-intelligence and joins up with badass rebels Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) to fight back. — Sara Netzley, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for enslaved

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The favorite to win Brazil’s election has promised to free his imprisoned father, former president Jair Bolsonaro, grant amnesty to supporters and impeach Supreme Court justices.

— Marina Dias, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2026
The company is required by its contract and state policy to provide mental health treatment, education and other services to imprisoned youth.

— Paige Pfleger, ProPublica, 25 Sep. 2026

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The Oregon Ducks defeated Boise State 34-27 in Week 1 but have since lost to Oklahoma State and, this weekend, to UCLA.

— Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 11 Oct. 2026
The Valkyries defeated the defending champion Las Vegas Aces on Friday night to advance to next week’s Finals, led by an overtime scoring flurry from Gabby Williams in their 87-77 win.

— Sara Germano, Sportico.com, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of defeated

Verb

Bassam Abed said at least 10 residences housing some 300 families were reduced to rubble, and families were not given enough time to flee.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026
That night’s show was reduced from 29 to 19 songs, between the concert running late from the interruption and Toomey likely not being able to duplicate Castronovo’s lead singing moments as well as his drumming.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of reduced

Adjective

That gave the team an additional visual reference during one of neurosurgery’s most confined operating environments.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
Sewers can contain numerous hazards, including noxious and potentially deadly gases, unstable surfaces, flooding risks, and confined spaces.

— Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2026

Definition of confined

Verb

About 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid smashed into Earth, kicking up tsunamis and dropping hot debris that annihilated non-avian dinosaurs and many other species.

— Elizabeth Rayne, ArsTechnica, 30 Sep. 2026
After the gold ions annihilated in collisions and produced new bits of matter, STAR tracked the paths of that debris.

— Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of annihilated

Adjective

Also back here is a dual-pattern power supply mount with two captive screws that serve one of the two supported mounting directions.

— Thomas Soderstrom, PC Magazine, 10 Oct. 2026
In Russia, fish processing workers were held captive in secluded company towns or stuck on ships far from shore.

— Ian Urbina, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of captive

Verb

In fact, in this retelling, their free will and autonomy are essential elements of that virtuous cycle, rather than subjugated by it.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2026
It’s gotten there by largely avoiding the trap of remaking the original story, in which an astronaut (Heston) crash-lands on a mysterious world in which apes are the dominant species and humans are subjugated, nonverbal creatures.

— Jesse Hassenger, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of subjugated

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