enslave
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 7
Definition of enslave
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.
“The migrants will be enslaved once they're no longer useful to the oligarchs; make no mistake about that.”
“He and his polite friends would dress themselves out with as much care in order to go and dine at each other’s rooms, as other folks would who were going to enslave a mistress.”
“Selling them whiskey and taking their gold. Enslaving the young and destroying the old.”
“The Vice-Premier described the Republic of China as not only an obstacle to Communist aggression, but an alternative to communism. He went on to say that if the Chinese Communists were permitted to enslave the Chinese people on the mainland in perpetuity, there could be no peace or security in Asia—or, for that matter, in the rest of the world—for a long, long time.”
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- Proto-Slavic *slověninъder. Byzantine Greek Σκλᾰ́βος (Sklắbos)der. Late Latin Sclavus Medieval Latin sclavusbor. Old French esclavebor. Middle English sclave English slave English enslave From en- + slave.
Words you can make from enslave
115 playable · top: LEAVENS (10 pts)
Best play leavens 10 points6-letter words
6 words5-letter words
30 words- AVENS 8 pts
- EAVES 8 pts
- ELVEN 8 pts
- ELVES 8 pts
- EVENS 8 pts
- LAVES 8 pts
- LEAVE 8 pts
- LEVAS 8 pts
- NAVEL 8 pts
- NAVES 8 pts
- NEVES 8 pts
- SALVE 8 pts
- SELVA 8 pts
- SEVEN 8 pts
- SLAVE 8 pts
- VALES 8 pts
- VALSE 8 pts
- VANES 8 pts
- VEALS 8 pts
- VEENA 8 pts
- VENAE 8 pts
- VENAL 8 pts
- ANELE 5 pts
- EASEL 5 pts
- ELANS 5 pts
- LANES 5 pts
- LEANS 5 pts
- LEASE 5 pts
- LENES 5 pts
- LENSE 5 pts
4-letter words
41 words- AVES 7 pts
- EAVE 7 pts
- EVEN 7 pts
- EVES 7 pts
- LAVE 7 pts
- LAVS 7 pts
- LEVA 7 pts
- LEVS 7 pts
- NAVE 7 pts
- NAVS 7 pts
- NEVE 7 pts
- SAVE 7 pts
- VALE 7 pts
- VANE 7 pts
- VANS 7 pts
- VASE 7 pts
- VEAL 7 pts
- VEES 7 pts
- VELA 7 pts
- VENA 7 pts
- ALEE 4 pts
- ALES 4 pts
- ANES 4 pts
- EASE 4 pts
- EELS 4 pts
- ELAN 4 pts
- ELSE 4 pts
- ESNE 4 pts
- LANE 4 pts
- LASE 4 pts
- LEAN 4 pts
- LEAS 4 pts
- LEES 4 pts
- LENS 4 pts
- NAES 4 pts
- SALE 4 pts
- SANE 4 pts
- SEAL 4 pts
- SEEL 4 pts
- SEEN 4 pts
- SENE 4 pts
3-letter words
27 words2-letter words
10 wordsHooks
3 extensions · 3 back
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