INDENTURED Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

indentured

adjective

Definition of indentured

as in enslaved

required by a contract to work for a certain period of time immigrants who came to the U.S. as indentured servants 200 years ago

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Robinson plays Henry, an enslaved person working on a plantation in Texas who’s wrongly accused of raping his master’s wife.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
One was an enslaved young poet whose words crossed the Atlantic before they were fully embraced at home.

— Robin Follman, Oc Register, 4 July 2026

Definition of enslaved

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Fujimori, the daughter of a disgraced former president, and Sánchez, an ally of an imprisoned ex-president, beat 33 other candidates in the initial vote in April, but neither earned even 20% of support.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 June 2026
Fujimori, daughter of a disgraced former president, and Sánchez, an ally of an imprisoned ex-president, were on the runoff’s ballot after beating 33 other candidates in the vote in April, but neither earned even 20% of support.

— Franklin Briceño, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026

Definition of imprisoned

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But some of the most poignant narratives come from Trojan women like Creusa, wife of Aeneas who escapes Troy and becomes a founding father for Rome, and Hector’s wife, Andromache, who is taken as a war captive by Achilles’s son.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
Meanwhile, their son Telemachus is told by the goddess Athena (Zendaya) to seek news of his father and learns Odysseus is alive, but held captive by a nymph (Charlize Theron).

— Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026

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