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thrall

  [thrawl] ,
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–noun
1. a person who is in bondage; slave.
2. a person who is morally or mentally enslaved by some power, influence, or the like: He was the thrall of morbid fantasies.
3. slavery; thralldom.
–verb (used with object)
4. Archaic. to put or hold in thralldom; enslave.
–adjective
5. Archaic. subjected to bondage; enslaved.
Origin:
bef. 950; ME; OE thrǣl < ON thrǣll slave
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thrall   (thrôl)   
n.  

    1. One, such as a slave or serf, who is held in bondage.

    2. One who is intellectually or morally enslaved.

  2. Servitude; bondage: "a people in thrall to the miracles of commerce" (Lewis H. Lapham).

tr.v.   thralled, thrall·ing, thralls Archaic
To enslave.

[Middle English, from Old English thrǣl, from Old Norse thrǣll.]
thrall'dom, thral'dom n.
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