Synonyms for enslave
ɛnˈsleɪven·slave

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1. enslave

   Synonyms:
   captivate, charm, subjugate, enthrall

   Antonyms:
   repel, disgust, alienate, estrange, liberate, manumit, disenthrall

Princeton's WordNet

1. enslaveverb

   make a slave of; bring into servitude

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1. • Subjugate

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1. enslaveverb

   Synonyms:
   reduce to bondage, deprive of liberty

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1. enslaveverb

   Synonyms:
   enthrall, subjugate, overcome

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1. List of paraphrases for "enslave":

   subjugate

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1. Fox News:

   How about we enslave all white people for a couple hundred years? and even after they’re not slaves anymore, still hold them down in society, devalue their existence by comparing them to animals, never apologize, never really make it right, and then after that there will be no more double standards and everyone will get fired for everything they say.

2. George Steiner:

   The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

3. Henry Peter Brougham:

   Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

4. Thomas Paine:

   All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

5. George Mason:

   To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.