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Definition of thrall in English: thrallnoun θrɔːlθrɔl 1literary mass noun The state of being in someone's power, or of having great power over someone. the town in thrall to a villain Example sentencesExamples - We want food freed from the grip of science rather than further in thrall to it.
- Another is to suppose that those who disagree with us are in thrall to some evil power.
- From the beginning his audience - and there was always an audience - were in thrall to his idiosyncratic and impassioned deliveries.
- We live in a world dominated by the private sector and governments in thrall to it.
- Most courts are still in thrall to local governments.
Synonyms power, clutches, hands, control, grip, grasp, yoke enslavement, bondage, slavery, subjection, subjugation, servitude, tyranny, oppression, domination, hegemony, supremacy 2archaic A slave, servant, or captive. Example sentencesExamples - Later that night, the two flew into the village and laid waste to it, killing some people while making thralls of others.
- I believe that peasants should be bound to the land as unfree thralls who do the bidding of the freemen without question.
- Lowest in the social order were the thralls, or slaves.
- No, they would not allow themselves to become the helpless thralls of that traitor.
Derivatives noun ˈθrɔːldəm mass nounliterary The state of being in someone's power. they liberated him from thraldom to the royal supremacy Example sentencesExamples - an escape from the thraldom of foreign domination
- figurative concern about our complete thraldom to digital media
- The river maps the feudarchy of northern India, to which their lives are bound; but from the river's culture, also, comes the expressive lyricism that redeems them, however temporarily, from their thralldom.
- Having sloughed off the social illiteracy that was Marxism, after 72 years, western Europe is again in thraldom to the delusions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
- Council house sales freed hundreds of thousands from virtual thraldom, and her union reforms released untold numbers more from the iniquities of the closed shop and secondary picketing.
Origin Old English thrǣl 'slave', from Old Norse thræll. Rhymes all, appal (US appall), awl, Bacall, ball, bawl, befall, Bengal, brawl, call, caul, crawl, Donegal, drawl, drywall, enthral (US enthrall), fall, forestall, gall, Galle, Gaul, hall, haul, maul, miaul, miscall, Montreal, Naipaul, Nepal, orle, pall, Paul, pawl, Saul, schorl, scrawl, seawall, Senegal, shawl, small, sprawl, squall, stall, stonewall, tall, trawl, wall, waul, wherewithal, withal, yawl Definition of thrall in US English: thrallnounTHrôlθrɔl literary 1The state of being in someone's power or having great power over someone. the town was in thrall to a villain Example sentencesExamples - Another is to suppose that those who disagree with us are in thrall to some evil power.
- Most courts are still in thrall to local governments.
- We want food freed from the grip of science rather than further in thrall to it.
- From the beginning his audience - and there was always an audience - were in thrall to his idiosyncratic and impassioned deliveries.
- We live in a world dominated by the private sector and governments in thrall to it.
Synonyms power, clutches, hands, control, grip, grasp, yoke - 1.1historical A slave, servant, or captive.
Example sentencesExamples - Later that night, the two flew into the village and laid waste to it, killing some people while making thralls of others.
- I believe that peasants should be bound to the land as unfree thralls who do the bidding of the freemen without question.
- Lowest in the social order were the thralls, or slaves.
- No, they would not allow themselves to become the helpless thralls of that traitor.
Origin Old English thrǣl ‘slave’, from Old Norse thræll. |