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thrall - What does it mean?

Definition of 'thrall'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • One who is enslaved or under mind control.
  • * 14th century , ,
    • My servant, which that is my thrall by right
  • * 1915 , ,
    • And there were household slaves in golden collars that burned of a plenty there with her, and nine female thralls , and eight male slaves of the Angles that were of gentle birth and battle-captured.
  • (uncountable) The state of being under the control of another person.
  • * 1864 , ,
    • Go: release him from the thrall of Hautia.
  • * 1889 , ,
    • [Y]our friend, John Edward, is at the other end of the room with his whole soul held in thrall by photographs of other people's relatives.
  • * 1911 , ,
    • In her brain she was dimly conscious of balancing, or striving to balance, the abject shame which had him now in thrall against the one compelling act of courage which had flung him grandly and madly on to the point of danger.
  • A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.

    • Related terms

    * enthrall * thralldom

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    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make a thrall.

    • Similar to 'thrall'

    trail, trial, trill, trawl, troll, trowel, thrill, thrawl, trull, twirl, thirl, triol, tryal, toral, torril, troul, trowl, turrel, thurl, truel, terrel, tryall