Thesaurus: bondage

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1. a. The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.
2. a. Obligation; tie of duty.
3. a. Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.
4. n. the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power
5. n. the state of being under the control of another person
6. n. sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners
7. 1. The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity. The King, when he designed you for my guard, Resolved he would not make my bondage hard. Dryden. 2. Obligation; tie of duty. He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought under the bondage of onserving oaths. South. 3. (Old Eng. Law) Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner. Syn. -- Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment.
8. Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanestservices for the owner.
9. n:100 n. the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power n. the state of being under the control of another person n. sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners