| 单词 | thrall |
| 释义 | thrall (once / 1744 pages) n When you're in thrall to someone, you are under their control in some way. If you're being held as a hostage, you're in thrall to your captor. You can be in thrall to anything that holds you captive or controls your thoughts or actions, like an addiction, a disease, or a cult leader. The Old English word that thrall comes from literally means "slave" or "servant." Another word with the same root as thrall is enthrall, which is sort of a friendlier version of the same idea. If you're enthralled by someone, you're captivated or fascinated, rather than "held in bondage." WORD FAMILYthrall: enthrall, thraldom, thralldom, thralls+/enthrall: enthrallment, enthralls/enthrallment: enthrallments/thraldom: thraldoms/thralldom: thralldoms USAGE EXAMPLESThere's ample time to muse over such fine distinctions while in thrall to her dozen recent works at Christopher Grimes Gallery. Los Angeles Times(Dec 23, 2016) A market less in thrall to speculators might seem like an unalloyed boon. Economist(Dec 15, 2016) For all his flaws as a coach, a chronically political dressing room sits in his thrall. New York Times(Dec 02, 2016) 1n the state of being under the control of another person Syn|Hypo|Hyper bondage, slavery, thraldom, thralldom bonded labor a practice in which employers give high-interest loans to workers whose entire families then labor at low wages to pay off the debt; the practice is illegal in the United States servitudestate of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment serfdom, serfhood, vassalagethe state of a serf villainage, villeinagethe legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf subjection, subjugation forced submission to control by others 2n someone held in bondage Hypo|Hyper helot, serf, villein (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord cotter, cottiera medieval English villein bond servant someone bound to labor without wages |
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