bondage
12
8.5
- noun
- /ˈbɒndɪdʒ/
:
esclavitud
- His addiction kept him in a state of bondage, making it difficult to enjoy life.
- debt bondage
- freed from bondage
I've been loyal to a false belief that was keeping me, that that has kept me in bondage to my past in some way.
- I've been loyal to a false belief that was keeping me, that that has kept me in bondage to my past in some way.
- And he goes, I just feel like there's so many men here trapped in that bondage.
- They're in different forms of bondage and they're in different forms of no exit dead ends.
- Like, Oh, my God, this is literally like the hot the AI transcends to to look at our mortal bondages.
- The landscape song of bondage dirge in the river's throat where it churns into the Gulf Wind, in trees choked with vines.
Examples
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"The creation waits in eager expectation "of liberation from bondage."
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Therefore, she is one who "breaks the shackles of worldly bondage."
Academic text (2001) -
And if we ourselves live in bondage, we need to be set free.
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But for this moment, we just ask that you let us free of the bondage of Promise
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Like everyone else, you were born into bondage... born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch.
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Yet the truth is that freedom from any kind of bondage can only be found in Christ.
Blog text (13) -
I thought then that I had been saved, delivered from a kind of bondage.
Academic text (1993) -
We may have the desire to free ourselves from this bondage.
Fiction book (2000) -
Release him from the bondage of hatred and vengeance, Lord.
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You're in financial bondage today because of the choices you've made.
Synonyms
102
3.7
A state of being kept somewhere and not allowed to leave
63
3.5
A situation where one person controls another person and they have no freedom
60
3.6
Needing another person or thing for help and control
41
4.4
Needing help from another person or thing to do everyday tasks
31
8.9
To be forced to work for and obey another person like a slave
17
6.3
Being forced to work for someone as their slave
17
8.0
A strong control that prevents others from changing things or acting freely
3
8.0
A strong control that stops people or groups from acting freely
1
9.9
Being under another person's control
1
9.9
A state of being completely controlled by another person with no freedom
Being tied or locked so someone cannot move
Antonyms
How Controlled
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Morphology
Etymology
Bondage comes from the old word bond meaning 'to bind' or 'to tie', plus the ending -age meaning 'a state'. That's why we also use it for being 'tied' by fear or addiction — it describes a state that is hard to escape.