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Synonyms for bondage
ˈbɒn dɪdʒbondage
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Wiktionary
bondagenoun
Antonyms:
freedombondagenoun
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:
freedombondagenoun
He lived in financial bondage to his cocaine habit; no matter how much he earned, it all seemed to disappear up his nose.
Antonyms:
freedombondagenoun
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
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
bondage
Synonyms:
servitude, confinement, imprisonment, incarceration, subjection, serfdom, thraldom, captivity, slaveryAntonyms:
freedom, liberty, independence, manumission, liberation
Princeton's WordNet
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"
bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom, thraldomnoun
the state of being under the control of another person
Synonyms:
slaveholding, thralldom, slavery, thraldom, thrallbondagenoun
sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners
Matched Categories
Dictionary of English Synonymes
bondagenoun
Synonyms:
servitude, slavery, thraldom, captivity, imprisonment, confinement, bond-service, bonds, restraint of personal liberty
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #2116 | bondage | |
| #4471 | bonds | |
| #6217 | chains | |
| #7664 | custody | |
| #11237 | slavery | |
| #13544 | irons | |
| #13920 | imprisonment | |
| #14908 | bonded | |
| #19967 | confinement | |
| #22272 | easement | |
| #27832 | captivity | |
| #28482 | incarceration | |
| #34836 | handcuffs | |
| #40755 | shackles | |
| #45272 | servitude | |
| #53134 | duress | |
| #59900 | subjection | |
| #62178 | thrall | |
| #63236 | enslavement | |
| #74728 | fetter | |
| #83084 | serfdom | |
| #109962 | durance | |
| #191316 | manacles | |
| #231172 | slaveholding |
How to use bondage in a sentence?
Inquiring into the nature of one’s self that is in bondage, and realizing one’s true nature is release
Faith without love is to be in people’s bondage. Love without faith, is to be in your own bondage.
Perhaps no music has had as profound and powerful an impact in shaping America's musical score as Black music, for generations, Black music has conveyed the hopes and struggles of a resilient people -- spirituals mourning the original sin of slavery and later heralding freedom from bondage, hard truths told through jazz and the sounds of Motown during the civil rights movement, and hip-hop and rhythm and blues that remind us of the work that still lies ahead.
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Translations for bondage
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- عبوديةArabic
- робство, ограничениеBulgarian
- bondážCzech
- trældomDanish
- Bondage, Sklaverei, PflichtGerman
- sklavecoEsperanto
- esclavitudSpanish
- sitominen, sitomisleikit, orjuusFinnish
- esclavage, servitude, bondageFrench
- cuibhriúIrish
- ग़ुलामी, बन्दगीHindi
- rabságHungarian
- perbudakanIndonesian
- servitùItalian
- ボンデージJapanese
- მონობა, ბონდაჟიGeorgian
- 속박Korean
- captivitasLatin
- slavernijDutch
- bondageNorwegian
- escravidãoPortuguese
- robieRomanian
- рабство, неволя, зависимость, бондажRussian
- slaveriSwedish
- బానిసత్వంTelugu
- görev, esaret, kölelik, esirlikTurkish
- غلامیUrdu
- באָנדאַגעYiddish
- 束縛Chinese
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