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. 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.

2. Jennifer Kempton:

   It very much so is a psychological form of bondage, it ties you to those memories and it ties you to those feelings that you felt when you got that and to be able to be free of enslavement and then to make an active choice of, 'This is what I want on my body, not this man's name or this gang's symbol, I want my daughter's name, I want a beautiful flower, I want a religious scripture, I want a butterfly to show that I have wings, and I can fly.'.

3. Melvin Maddocks:

   A man's work is his dilemma his job is his bondage, but it also gives him a fair share of his identity and keeps him from being a bystander in somebody else's world.

4. Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death:

   No country can be described as free- but each has different degrees of bondage.

5. Dan Quayle:

   Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.