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say it: BAHN-dij
bondage is a noun meaning "the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power". It carries 3 recorded senses.
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”
sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bondage come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.