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Enslave

To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence.

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Subject 76% connected

Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

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Subjugate 76% connected

To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another;…

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Enslavement 74% connected

The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude.

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Enslavement 74% connected

The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude.

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Abolition noun · 78% connection

The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or t…

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Allegory noun · 78% connection

A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and…

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allele noun · 78% connection

(genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and t…

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Allelomorph noun · 78% connection

(genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and t…

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Authentic noun · 78% connection

Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octav…

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Autosomal dominant disease noun · 78% connection

a disease caused by a dominant mutant gene on an autosome

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Autosomal dominant disorder noun · 78% connection

a disease caused by a dominant mutant gene on an autosome

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Biome noun · 78% connection

a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate

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Cadence noun · 78% connection

The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord.

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Char noun · 78% connection

To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.

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Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease noun · 78% connection

a form of neuropathy that can begin between childhood and young adulthood; characterized by weakness and atrophy of the muscles of the…

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Contraband noun · 78% connection

A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.

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Demicadence noun · 78% connection

An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note.

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Dominant adjective · 78% connection

Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.

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Dominant gene noun · 78% connection

gene that produces the same phenotype in the organism whether or not its allele identical; "the dominant gene for brown eyes"

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Dominate verb · 78% connection

To be dominant.

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Emancipation noun · 78% connection

The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence; also, the state of…

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Equate verb · 78% connection

To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison;…

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