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. Alireza Salehi Nejad:

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

2. Rachel McCool:

   I have a whole new appreciation for the color of the sky, because when you're an addict and when you're in bondage, you see everything as black and white, as gray, i didn't see the beauty of this world, this world we're living in. Yeah, there's a lot of hurt and I understand that too, but there's a lot of beauty and there's a lot of freedom.

3. Bruce Barton:

   What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

4. William James:

   Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

5. Cyril Connolly:

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