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. 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.

2. Dan Quayle:

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

3. Ian Kerner:

   It's not an indication of a personality characteristic, a wife discovers her husband is into Asian bondage stuff. ' Is that who he is ? Is he a kinky person ? I don't know him anymore !'.

4. Joe Biden:

   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.

5. Alireza Salehi Nejad:

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