enslaver
- noun
- /ɪnˈsleɪvər/
- NSFW
- The novel tells the story of a rebellious slave who fought against his enslaver's oppressive rule.
Examples
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Throughout history, many enslavers brutally forced people into servitude for their own gain.
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I charge him with being the greatest robber and enslaver on this earth!
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The British Empire—enslavers of entire nations
Blog text (2) -
Taking the opposite position, mid-nineteenth-century enslavers from the U.S. often made the case that the abolition of slavery would cause financial ruin.
Academic text (2017) -
If he were white and his enslavers British, he'd be weighed down by the medals and honours we would bestow upon him.
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12 Davidson, on the other hand, stretches to find mitigating circumstances for the enslavers.
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Domestic labor is legal in the USA, but that does not stop law enforcement from discovering domestics held as slaves and prosecuting the enslavers.
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His publications identified and elaborated on, among other things, drapetomania and dysaesthesia aethiopica, which pathologized the tendencies of slaves not to want to do what their enslavers demanded of them.
Academic text (2017) -
Records show that some enslavers justified their actions by claiming it was necessary for their economic prosperity.
Synonyms
Someone who keeps another person as property and forces them to work for no pay
A person who buys and sells people as slaves
A person who buys and sells people as slaves
A person who owns other people and forces them to work without pay
A person who forces others to work very hard and treats them badly
A person who buys and sells people to force them to work without freedom
A person who conquers people by force and makes them obey
Antonyms
How Oppressive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word enslaver is made from slave and the ending -er, where -er means 'one who does something'. The word slave came from a word for the Slavic people who were often captured and forced to work, so an enslaver is someone who 'makes someone a slave' and takes away their freedom.