Prisoner and Slave

Prisoner

Prisoner noun - One that has been taken and held in confinement.

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Slave and prisoner are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Slave" instead a noun "Prisoner".

Nearby Words: prison, prisoned, prisoning

Slave noun - A person who is considered the property of another person.

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Prisoner and slave are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Prisoner" instead a noun "Slave".

Nearby Words: slavish, slaver, slavery, slaved, slaving

fellow	fellow prisoner	fellow slave
human	human prisoner	human slave
old	old prisoner	old slave
female	female prisoner	female slave
Other adjectives: complete, bound, original, single, male, helpless, black, escaping, white, new, former, temporary, fugitive, mere, released, escaped, runaway, foreign, elderly, virtual, tortured.

There once was a practice called "Blood Tempering," in which a red-hot blade is inserted by stab-wound and/or anally into a slave or prisoner of war, as it would cool the sword at body-temperature.

Source: Hot Blade
And then he keeps Cathy a virtual prisoner and slave, psychologically and physically tormenting her too.

Source: Break The Cutie / Literature
In GURPS Cyberpunk, "slave chips" can be used to paralyze a subject (usually a prisoner) or overwrite his personality with a new subservient one, for example to turn someone into a sex slave.

Source: Upgrade Artifact

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