Enthrall vs Thrall - What's the difference?
enthrall | thrall | Related terms |
To hold spellbound; to bewitch, charm or captivate.
To make subservient; to enslave or subjugate.
One who is enslaved or under mind control.
* 14th century , ,
* 1915 , ,
(uncountable) The state of being under the control of another person.
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* 1889 , ,
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A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.
Thrall is a related term of enthrall.
As verbs the difference between enthrall and thrall
is that enthrall is to hold spellbound; to bewitch, charm or captivate while thrall is to make a thrall.As a noun thrall is
one who is enslaved or under mind control.enthrall
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Alternative forms
* enthral (chiefly UK)Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* (hold spellbound ): bewitch, captivate, charm, hold in awe, transfix * (make subservient ): enslave, subjugatethrall
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Noun
(en noun)- My servant, which that is my thrall by right
- And there were household slaves in golden collars that burned of a plenty there with her, and nine female thralls , and eight male slaves of the Angles that were of gentle birth and battle-captured.
- Go: release him from the thrall of Hautia.
- [Y]our friend, John Edward, is at the other end of the room with his whole soul held in thrall by photographs of other people's relatives.
- In her brain she was dimly conscious of balancing, or striving to balance, the abject shame which had him now in thrall against the one compelling act of courage which had flung him grandly and madly on to the point of danger.