"enthrall" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ɪnˈθɹɔːl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-enthrall.wav Forms: enthralls [present, singular, third-person], enthralling [participle, present], enthralled [participle, past], enthralled [past]
Etymology: From Middle English enthrallen, equivalent to en- + thrall. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|enthrallen}} Middle English enthrallen, {{af|en|en-|thrall}} en- + thrall Head templates: {{en-verb}} enthrall (third-person singular simple present enthralls, present participle enthralling, simple past and past participle enthralled), {{tlb|en|transitive}} (transitive)
  1. To hold spellbound. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Slavery Synonyms: bewitch, captivate, charm, enchant, transfix Translations (hold spellbound): омайвам (omajvam) (Bulgarian), очаровам (očarovam) (Bulgarian), embruixar (Catalan), captivar (Catalan), være vild med (Danish), betoveren (Dutch), ravi (Esperanto), sorĉi (Esperanto), lumota (Finnish), captiver (French), fesseln (German), bezirzen (German), verhexen (German), γοητεύω (goïtévo) (Greek), elbűvöl (Hungarian), oczarować (Polish), zafascynować (Polish), captiva (Romanian), fermeca (Romanian), vrăji (Romanian), зачаро́вывать (začaróvyvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), subyugar (Spanish), cautivar (Spanish), embrujar (Spanish), embelesar (Spanish), embebecer (Spanish), hechizar (Spanish), fascinar (Spanish), fängsla (Swedish), trollbinda (Swedish), förtrolla (Swedish), förhäxa (Swedish), tjusa (Swedish), förtjusa (Swedish), fascinera (Swedish), зачаро́вувати (začaróvuvaty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-enthrall-en-verb-YG6LE8f7 Disambiguation of Slavery: 81 19 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with en-, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Gothic translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Ido translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Old Norse translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 62 38 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with en-: 54 46 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 76 24 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 81 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 91 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Gothic translations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Ido translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Old Norse translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 78 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of 'hold spellbound': 100 0
  2. (now rare) To make subservient. Tags: archaic, transitive Synonyms: enslave, subjugate Translations (make subservient): поробвам (porobvam) (Bulgarian), subjugar (Catalan), kue (Danish), underkue (Danish), undertrykke (Danish), onderwerpen (Dutch), subigi (Esperanto), sklavigi (Esperanto), orjuuttaa (Finnish), asservir (French), unterwerfen (German), 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌸𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽 (anaþiwan) (Gothic), rabjává tesz (Hungarian), sklavigar (Ido), asservire (Italian), schiavizzare (Italian), þrælka (Old Norse), zniewolić [perfective] (Polish), subjuga (Romanian), aservi (Romanian), înrobi (Romanian), порабоща́ть (poraboščátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), esclavizar (Spanish), subyugar (Spanish), понево́лювати (ponevóljuvaty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), підко́рювати (pidkórjuvaty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-enthrall-en-verb-jfi3o9MV Categories (other): English terms prefixed with en- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with en-: 54 46 Disambiguation of 'make subservient': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: enthral [UK], inthrall [archaic] Derived forms: disenthrall, enthralldom, enthralled [adjective], enthralling [adjective], enthrallment

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 5, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:",
          "text": "Fancy, Jim, to be in love and play Juliet! To have him sitting there! To play for his delight! I am afraid I may frighten the company, frighten or enthrall them.",
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          "ref": "1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 17, in The Return of Tarzan:",
          "text": "In the center of the circle of glittering black bodies he leaped and roared and shook his heavy spear in the same mad abandon that enthralled his fellow savages. The last remnant of his civilization was forgotten—he was a primitive man to the fullest now; reveling in the freedom of the fierce, wild life he loved, gloating in his kingship among these wild blacks.",
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        "To hold spellbound."
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          "word": "bewitch"
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          "word": "captivate"
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          "word": "charm"
        },
        {
          "word": "enchant"
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
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          "roman": "omajvam",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "омайвам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
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          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "očarovam",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "очаровам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "embruixar"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "captivar"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "være vild med"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "betoveren"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "ravi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "sorĉi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "lumota"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "captiver"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "fesseln"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "bezirzen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "verhexen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "goïtévo",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "γοητεύω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "elbűvöl"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "oczarować"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "zafascynować"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "captiva"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "fermeca"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "vrăji"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "začaróvyvatʹ",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "зачаро́вывать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "subyugar"
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "cautivar"
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "embrujar"
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "embelesar"
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "embebecer"
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "hechizar"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "fascinar"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "fängsla"
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "trollbinda"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "förtrolla"
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "förhäxa"
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "tjusa"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "förtjusa"
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
          "word": "fascinera"
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "začaróvuvaty",
          "sense": "hold spellbound",
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          "ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book XII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:",
          "text": "[…] Who oft as undeservedly enthrall / His outward freedom: Tyranny must be;",
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        "To make subservient."
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        "(now rare) To make subservient."
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          "word": "enslave"
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          "_dis1": "0 100",
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          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "porobvam",
          "sense": "make subservient",
          "word": "поробвам"
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          "lang": "Danish",
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          "word": "kue"
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          "sense": "make subservient",
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          "sense": "make subservient",
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          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "make subservient",
          "word": "sklavigi"
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "make subservient",
          "word": "orjuuttaa"
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          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "make subservient",
          "word": "asservir"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "make subservient",
          "word": "unterwerfen"
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          "code": "got",
          "lang": "Gothic",
          "roman": "anaþiwan",
          "sense": "make subservient",
          "word": "𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌸𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽"
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          "sense": "make subservient",
          "word": "rabjává tesz"
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          "code": "io",
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          "sense": "make subservient",
          "word": "sklavigar"
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          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "make subservient",
          "word": "asservire"
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          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "make subservient",
          "word": "schiavizzare"
        },
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          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "non",
          "lang": "Old Norse",
          "sense": "make subservient",
          "word": "þrælka"
        },
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          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "make subservient",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "zniewolić"
        },
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          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "make subservient",
          "word": "subjuga"
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "make subservient",
          "word": "aservi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "make subservient",
          "word": "înrobi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "poraboščátʹ",
          "sense": "make subservient",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "порабоща́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "make subservient",
          "word": "esclavizar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "make subservient",
          "word": "subyugar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "ponevóljuvaty",
          "sense": "make subservient",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "понево́лювати"
        },
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          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "pidkórjuvaty",
          "sense": "make subservient",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "підко́рювати"
        }
      ]
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      "ipa": "/ɪnˈθɹɔːl/"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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        "archaic"
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      "word": "inthrall"
    }
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}
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    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Gothic translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Ido translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Old Norse translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
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      "word": "disenthrall"
    },
    {
      "word": "enthralldom"
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        "adjective"
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      "word": "enthralled"
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        "adjective"
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      "form": "enthralls",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
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      "form": "enthralling",
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      "form": "enthralled",
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          "ref": "1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 5, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:",
          "text": "Fancy, Jim, to be in love and play Juliet! To have him sitting there! To play for his delight! I am afraid I may frighten the company, frighten or enthrall them.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 17, in The Return of Tarzan:",
          "text": "In the center of the circle of glittering black bodies he leaped and roared and shook his heavy spear in the same mad abandon that enthralled his fellow savages. The last remnant of his civilization was forgotten—he was a primitive man to the fullest now; reveling in the freedom of the fierce, wild life he loved, gloating in his kingship among these wild blacks.",
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        "To hold spellbound."
      ],
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          "word": "bewitch"
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        {
          "word": "captivate"
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        {
          "word": "charm"
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        {
          "word": "enchant"
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          "word": "transfix"
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          "word": "disenthrall"
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        {
          "ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book XII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:",
          "text": "[…] Who oft as undeservedly enthrall / His outward freedom: Tyranny must be;",
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        }
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        "To make subservient."
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        "(now rare) To make subservient."
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        {
          "word": "enslave"
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          "word": "subjugate"
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      "ipa": "/ɪnˈθɹɔːl/"
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      "tags": [
        "UK"
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      "word": "enthral"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
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      "word": "inthrall"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "omajvam",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "омайвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "očarovam",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "очаровам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "embruixar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "captivar"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "være vild med"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "betoveren"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "ravi"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "sorĉi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "lumota"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "captiver"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "fesseln"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "bezirzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "verhexen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "goïtévo",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "γοητεύω"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "elbűvöl"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "oczarować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "zafascynować"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "captiva"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "fermeca"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "vrăji"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "začaróvyvatʹ",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "зачаро́вывать"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "subyugar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "cautivar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "embrujar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "embelesar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "embebecer"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "hechizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "fascinar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "fängsla"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "trollbinda"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "förtrolla"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "förhäxa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "tjusa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "förtjusa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "word": "fascinera"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "začaróvuvaty",
      "sense": "hold spellbound",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "зачаро́вувати"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "porobvam",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "поробвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "subjugar"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "kue"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "underkue"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "undertrykke"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "onderwerpen"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "subigi"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "sklavigi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "orjuuttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "asservir"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "unterwerfen"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "anaþiwan",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌸𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "rabjává tesz"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "sklavigar"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "asservire"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "schiavizzare"
    },
    {
      "code": "non",
      "lang": "Old Norse",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "þrælka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zniewolić"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "subjuga"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "aservi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "înrobi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "poraboščátʹ",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "порабоща́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "esclavizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "word": "subyugar"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "ponevóljuvaty",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "понево́лювати"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pidkórjuvaty",
      "sense": "make subservient",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "підко́рювати"
    }
  ],
  "word": "enthrall"
}

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