verb [VN] [usuallypassive]
1 to make sb a slave
2 ~ sb/sth (to sth) (formal) to make sb/sth completely dependent on sth so that they cannot manage without it:
Our civilization remains enslaved to materialism.
enslavement noun [U]:
In the US the enslavement of Africans and their descendants continued well into the second half of the 19th century. * the enslavement of man by technology
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