Synonyms for bondage
ˈbɒn dɪdʒbondage

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1. bondagenoun

   Antonyms:
   freedom

2. bondagenoun

   In Judeo-Christian tradition, the Israelites fled bondage at the hands of the Egyptians, only to wander in the wilderness for the next four decades.

   Antonyms:
   freedom

3. bondagenoun

   He lived in financial bondage to his cocaine habit; no matter how much he earned, it all seemed to disappear up his nose.

   Antonyms:
   freedom

4. bondagenoun

   Their marriage broke up when she discovered he had been engaging in bondage games with a local dominatrix while he was supposedly working out at the gym.

   Antonyms:
   freedom

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1. bondage

   Bonds may be of cord, leather, or any other substance that can bind; chains are of linked metal. Manacles and handcuffs are for the hands, fetters are primarily chains or jointed iron fastenings for the feet; gyves may be for either. A shackle is a metallic ring, clasp, or bracelet-like fastening for encircling and restraining a limb: commonly one of a pair, used either for hands or feet. Bonds, fetters, and chains are used in a general way for almost any form of restraint. Gyves is now wholly poetic, and the other words are mostly restricted to the literary style; handcuffs is the specific and irons the general term in popular usage; as, the prisoner was put in irons. Bonds, chains, and shackles are frequently used in the metaphorical sense.

   Synonyms:
   bonds, chains, custody, durance, duress, fetter, gyves, handcuffs, imprisonment, irons, manacles, shackles

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1. bondage

   Synonyms:
   servitude, confinement, imprisonment, incarceration, subjection, serfdom, thraldom, captivity, slavery

   Antonyms:
   freedom, liberty, independence, manumission, liberation

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1. bondagenoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   thralldom, slavery, thraldom, thrall

2. bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom, thraldomnoun

   the state of being under the control of another person

   Synonyms:
   slaveholding, thralldom, slavery, thraldom, thrall

3. bondagenoun

   sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners

   Synonyms:
   thralldom, slavery, thraldom, thrall

Matched Categories

1. • Sexual Activity
   • Subjugation

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1. bondagenoun

   Synonyms:
   servitude, slavery, thraldom, captivity, imprisonment, confinement, bond-service, bonds, restraint of personal liberty

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1. bondagenoun

   Synonyms:
   servitude, slavery, captivity, bond service, thralldom, durance

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1. List of paraphrases for "bondage":

   servitude, easement, slavery, bonded, enslavement, serfdom, captivity

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How to use bondage in a sentence?

1. Santa Kumar:

   My father didn't even dream of this life. We only knew bondage. Now we don't even have to take a loan.

2. Thomas Troward:

   Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

3. Cyril Connolly:

   The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

4. Alireza Salehi Nejad:

   Faith without love is to be in people’s bondage. Love without faith, is to be in your own bondage.

5. Rabindranath Tagore:

   Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.