Enslaving

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An enslavement.

    "And the manifold evils which have filled the world for these thousands of years — the murders, enslavings, and robberies — the tyrannies of rulers, the oppressions of class, the persecutions of sect and party […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of enslave form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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accroachadoptappropriatearrogateassumebeat down

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"On August 3, 2014, Islamic State militants invaded Iraq’s Sinjar province brutally attacking, killing, displacing, and enslaving hundreds of thousands of Yazidis in their ancient homeland in the country’s north."

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