| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  thrôl |
| NOUN: | 1a. One, such as a slave or serf, who is held in bondage. b. One who is intellectually or morally enslaved. 2. Servitude; bondage: “a people in thrall to the miracles of commerce” (Lewis H. Lapham). | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: thralled, thrall·ing, thralls
Archaic To enslave. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old English thr l, from Old Norse thrll. | | OTHER FORMS: | thrall dom, thraldom —NOUN
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