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How to pronounce thrall in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bondage, slavery, thraldom, thralldom
Type of subjection, subjugation
Has types servitude, serfdom, bonded labor, vassalage, serfhood
Derivation thraldom, thralldom
Type Words
Type of bond servant
Has types helot, serf, villein

Examples of thrall

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What sets Olive apart from all of them is that he's not in thrall to the guitar.
From the guardian.co.uk
In just the last month, Obama suggested that Republicans were in thrall to Rush.
From the omaha.com
That was the year that the global financial crisis held the world in its thrall.
From the smh.com.au
It would be the perfect first Swan Lake for somebody newly in thrall to ballet.
From the telegraph.co.uk
DuVall-Early's lectures about stress, memory and aging hold students in thrall.
From the washingtonpost.com
At 24, the author was a mystic and an antinomian, in thrall to Blake and Shelley.
From the nytimes.com
The younger they are, the easier to brainwash and keep in thrall by sheer terror.
From the economist.com
But when his stock falls, how will an art world in thrall to big money respond?
From the guardian.co.uk
He is also in thrall to Tory beliefs that are often confused and contradictory.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Bondage: the state of being under the control of another person
  • Someone held in bondage
  • A thrall (Old Norse: u00FEru00E6ll, Norwegian: trell, Danish: tru00E6l) was a slave or serf in Scandinavian lands during the Viking Age. The corresponding term in Old English was u00FEu0113ow. The status of slave (u00FEru00E6ll, u00FEu0113ow ) contrasts with that of the freeman (karl, ceorl) and the nobleman (jarl, eorl). The Middle Latin rendition of the term in early Germanic law is servus...
  • Thralls (also known as Blood Angels in Canada; u00C1ngeles sanguinarios in Argentina, and Les esclaves d'un vampire in France) is a 2004 comedy horror film.
  • Bondage; figuratively: one controlled by a passion or a vice
  • Stone slab or shelf that helps lower the temperature in a food store or pantry.
  • A vampire can persuade a victim to forget the bite/attack. Can be used to enthrall an entire room, but is difficult and the vampire must be focused. Difficult, if not impossible, to enthrall a paranormal.
  • The submissive half of a blood bond who has imbibed a vampire's blood.
  • A vampire under the influence of a blood-bond,having drunk thrice from another vampire.