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bondage (s) (noun), bondages (pl)
1. A condition in which someone belongs to another person as his or her servant or serf: Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves from bondage.
2. The state of subjection to a power, influence, or lacking freedom to do what one wants to do: Mark's friend was struggling to overcome the bondage of drug addiction.
The state of being controlled by another power or influence.
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