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enslaved

adj.
B2 Upper Intermediate US //ɛnˈsɫeɪvd// UK //ɛnslˈeɪvd// en·slaved

adj. describing someone who is owned by another person and forced to work for no money.

adj. held in a state of slavery; forced into a condition of involuntary servitude where one is treated as the legal property of another. Often used as a participial adjective to describe a person's status or a population.


SIMPLE

The book tells the story of an enslaved family seeking freedom.

CONTEXTUAL

Historians estimate that millions of enslaved people were transported across the Atlantic during the colonial era.

COMPLEX

The museum's latest exhibition focuses on the daily lives and cultural resistance of enslaved individuals on eighteenth-century sugar plantations, highlighting their agency despite systemic oppression.

Synonyms
Usage

Often follows a linking verb or precedes a noun; preferred in modern academic and social contexts over the noun 'slave' to emphasize the condition imposed on the person.

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