bondage
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- noun
- /ˈbɒndɪdʒ/
- Many were former slaves, emancipated from a life of bondage and sent directly to freedom in Liberia.
- escape from bondage
- deliverance from bondage
- release from bondage
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Watch on YouTubeBecause they work to release us from human bondage into human freedom.
- Because they work to release us from human bondage into human freedom.
- were held in bondage on various plantations, listed in the ledgers alongside
Examples
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Four hundred years in bondage, and today he won't move!
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By their crimes, realms and nations which used to live free are brought into bondage against the will of God!
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Because they work to release us from human bondage into human freedom.
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Our brothers and sisters live in bondage.
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I think it's the chain by which he holds us all in bondage.
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And then, for those elected, a release from bondage through the miracle of art.
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Don't you remember what it was like when your people were in bondage?
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I've read some old documents which predict a king will come to lead the Jews out of bondage.
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Abolishing slavery by constitutional provision settles the fate for all coming time not only of the millions now in bondage but of unborn millions to come.
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Many people suffered in bondage during the transatlantic slave trade.
Synonyms
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A person legally owned by someone else who must work without pay or freedom
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A state of being kept somewhere and not allowed to leave
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Kept as a prisoner and not free
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To be forced to work for and obey another person like a slave
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A situation where one person controls another person and they have no freedom
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Being forced to work for someone as their slave
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Being completely controlled by someone or something
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A person legally forced to work for another without pay
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A woman forced to work for another person without pay
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A person forced to work without pay for someone else
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A person who must work for another person by law, often like a servant in the past
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Being under another person's control
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A woman who is owned by someone and forced to work
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A man who is forced to work for another person and has no freedom
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A woman held as a slave who is forced to work without pay
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Etymology
Bondage comes from the old word bond meaning 'to bind' or 'to tie', plus the ending -age meaning 'a state'. So it originally meant the state of being tied up, which is why it now refers to being under another person's control or in slavery.