| Main Entry: | slavery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of working under duress or without freedom |
Synonyms: |
bondage, bullwork, captivity, chains constraint, drudge, drudgery, enslavement, enthrallment, feudalism, grind, helotry, indenture, labor, menial labor, moil, peonage, restraint, serfdom, serfhood, servitude, subjection, subjugation, thrall, thralldom, toil, vassalage, work |
Antonyms: |
mastery |
| Main Entry: | captivity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical detention by force |
Synonyms: |
bondage, committal, confinement, constraint, custody, durance, duress, enslavement, enthrallment, entombment, impoundment, imprisonment, incarceration, internment, jail, limbo, restraint, serfdom, servitude, slavery, subjection, thralldom, vassalage |
Antonyms: |
freedom, independence, liberty, license |
| Main Entry: | drudgery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard, tedious work |
Synonyms: |
backbreaker, chore, daily grind, elbow grease, grind*, gruntwork, labor, menial labor, rat race, slavery, struggle, sweat, toil, travail, workout |
Antonyms: |
snap |
| Main Entry: | sweat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard work |
Synonyms: |
backbreaker, chore, drudgery, effort, grind, labor, moil, slavery, task, toil, travail, work |
Antonyms: |
entertainment, recreation |
| Main Entry: | yoke |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bondage, bond |
Synonyms: |
burden, chain, coupling, enslavement, helotry, knot, ligament, ligature, link, nexus, oppression, peonage, serfdom, service, servility, servitude, slavery, tie |
| Notes: | a yoke is a crossbar joining animals or something figuratively holding things together; a yolk is the yellow of an egg |
| Main Entry: | enslavement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thralldom |
Synonyms: |
servitude, slavery, subjection |
| Main Entry: | labor camp |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prison camp |
Synonyms: |
Gulag, chain gang, corvee, forced labor camp, hard labor, rock pile, servitude, slavery |
| Main Entry: | thrall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bondage |
Synonyms: |
servitude, slavery |