thrall
a person who is morally or mentally enslaved by some power, influence, or the like: He was the thrall of morbid fantasies.
a person held in bondage or slavery.
Archaic. to put or hold in thralldom; enslave.
Archaic. subjected to bondage; enslaved.
Origin of thrall
1Other words from thrall
- un·thralled, adjective
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How to use thrall in a sentence
With all those dead pine trees in thrall to wildfire, the Sierra, transmuted into ash, is right outside our door.
It is the process by which rock stars gain priest-like powers over massive congregations while putting the congregants into ever greater thrall.
Although the characters are in the thrall of big emotions — anger, desperation, repression and guilt — the words they use to articulate their feelings are fairly drab.
‘Twelve Minutes’: Grueling repetition with an interesting payoff | Christopher Byrd | August 27, 2021 | Washington PostNow both are in thrall to a base that has been encouraged to reject the simplest defensive measures.
How Trumpian politics stoke the coronavirus pandemic | Philip Bump | August 24, 2021 | Washington PostIt’s a showdown that would have me in thrall even if the venue were some meaningless, late summer meet in Europe.
They are an elusive bunch, in motion or in the thrall of another time.
The sheikh is ready to flee if the Lebanese security forces, considered to be in thrall to Hezbollah, make a move to arrest him.
The Sheikh Who Wants to Put the Hurt on Hezbollah in Lebanon | Jamie Dettmer | July 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMost natives speak Russian as their first language, and are more in thrall to Russian culture than Ukrainian.
Nathan thrall, from the International Crisis Group, is even more skeptical.
thrall is right to imply that the Olmert-Abbas principles were a only start and there is no guarantee that starting is succeeding.
Then the Earl departed and a thrall of his named Kark bore him company.
The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) | Snorri SturlusonThereupon dug the thrall a large ditch in the sty & carried away the earth, and afterwards placed wood across it.
The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) | Snorri SturlusonBut bad fortune overtook Mr. Croker and the eighteen who then held him in partial thrall.
The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 | VariousWell had he said to himself that night in May: "La belle Dame sans mercy hath thee in thrall."
Plashers Mead | Compton MackenzieThe Teutonic race had a myth which explained the origin of the classes eorl, ceorl and thrall (earl, churl and slave).
Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 | Andrew Lang
British Dictionary definitions for thrall
/ (θrɔːl) /
Also called: thraldom, (US) thralldom (ˈθrɔːldəm) the state or condition of being in the power of another person
a person who is in such a state
a person totally subject to some need, desire, appetite, etc
(tr) to enslave or dominate
Origin of thrall
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