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How to pronounce bondage in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms slavery, thraldom, thrall, thralldom
Type of subjection, subjugation
Has types vassalage, serfdom, serfhood, servitude, bonded labor
Type Words
Type of sexual practice, sex, sex activity, sexual activity
Type Words
Type of subjection, subjugation


he was in bondage to fear.
he sought release from his bondage to Satan.
a self freed from the bondage of time.

Examples of bondage

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Moses freed the Hebrews from bondage, and led them through the desert to Canaan.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He was lucky enough to be able to borrow the fee to remove himself from bondage.
From the guardian.co.uk
Several are old, old men for whom life has become the cruelest possible bondage.
From the time.com
In her photographs, Sarah poses herself in scenes of bondage and sexual violence.
From the courier-journal.com
Up to 65 million work in slavery or bondage, most of them from the Dalit caste.
From the businessweek.com
These are individuals caught in an ancient practice of generational debt bondage.
From the edition.cnn.com
It would also highlight the state's violent transition into a bastion of bondage.
From the al.com
It just doesn't come with bondage trousers and haircuts and piercings any more.
From the independent.co.uk
It is the function of free speech to free men from bondage of irrational fears.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • The state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power; "he was in bondage to fear:; "he sought release from his bondage to Satan"; "a self freed from the bondage of time"
  • Sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners
  • Bondage is a 1992 play by American playwright David Henry Hwang. It deals with issues of race and racial stereotypes by placing a fully disguised man and woman in an S and M parlor playing out sexual games. ...
  • Bondage is the use of restraints for the sexual pleasure of the parties involved. It may be used in its own right, as in the case of rope bondage and breast bondage, or as part of sexual activity or BDSM activity. ...
  • The Bondage is a 2006 film written and directed by Eric Allen Bell. The film had limited release.
  • The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery; The state of lacking freedom; constraint; The practice of tying people up for sexual pleasure
  • (bondages) mental: cetaso vinibandha (q.v.).
  • Of Israel in Egypt (Exo 2:23, Exo 2:25; 5), which is called the "house of bondage" (Exo 13:3; Exo 20:2). This word is used also with reference to the captivity in Babylon (Isa 14:3), and the oppression of the Persian king (Ezr 9:8, Ezr 9:9).
  • Portrayal of a character bound or chained or otherwise restrained; there are collectors who feel a bondage cover makes a comic book of more interest.