English-Italian translations for bondage

• bondage
• schiavitù
  Ho visto quali fossero le grandi aspettative di queste persone, che hanno votato per la liberazione del paese dalla schiavitù. I also witnessed the major expectations of the people who decided on the liberation of their country from bondage.
  La nostra forza sono i diritti umani, la democrazia, lo Stato di diritto e la libertà per il cui ottenimento tutti noi abbiamo lottato duramente - libertà dalla dipendenza e dalla schiavitù. Our strengths are human rights, democracy, the rule of law and the freedom we have all fought hard together to achieve - freedom from dependency and bondage.

Definition of bondage

• The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery
• The state of lacking freedom; constraint
• The practice of tying people up for sexual pleasure
• Applied to clothing with many buckles, zips, etc., associated with punk and goth subcultures

Examples

• 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.
• He lived in financial bondage to his cocaine habit; no matter how much he earned, it all seemed to disappear up his nose.
• 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.
• bondage trousers; bondage jeans; bondage pants

Related words

• vagabondage
• bondager
• debt bondage
• be in bondage to somebody