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Thrall vs Enslave - What's the difference?

thrall | enslave |

As verbs the difference between thrall and enslave

is that thrall is to make a thrall while enslave is to make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.

As a noun thrall

is one who is enslaved or under mind control.

thrall

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who is enslaved or under mind control.
  • * 14th century , ,
  • My servant, which that is my thrall by right
  • * 1915 , ,
  • 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.
  • (uncountable) The state of being under the control of another person.
  • * 1864 , ,
  • Go: release him from the thrall of Hautia.
  • * 1889 , ,
  • [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.
  • * 1911 , ,
  • 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.
  • A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.
  • References

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a thrall.
  • enslave

    English

    Alternative forms

    * inslave

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.
  • Synonyms

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