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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, uses a device as he visits an exhibition of Iran's laser science, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. Ahmadinejad ordered his country's atomic agency on Sunday to begin the production of higher enriched uranium, a move that's likely to deepen international skepticism about the country's real intentions on the crucial issue of enriched uranium. (AP Photo/ISNA,Hamid Foroutan)AP - Iran pressed ahead Monday with plans that will increase its ability to make nuclear weapons as it formally informed the U.N. nuclear agency of its intention to enrich uranium to higher levels.


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enthrall
\in-THRAWL\
verb

to hold in or reduce to slavery



to hold spellbound : charm

Example Sentence
"For 40 years, the Romero Quartet has enthralled audiences with superb classical guitar playing." (David Stabler, The Oregonian [Portland Oregon], January 8, 2010) In Middle English, "enthrallen" meant "to hold in thrall." "Thrall" then, as now, meant "bondage" or "slavery"; it comes from an Old Norse word, "thraell," which is probably related to an Old High German word for servant. In the 16th century, the first known figurative use of "enthrall" appeared in the following advice, translated from a Latin text by Thomas Newton: "A man should not . . . enthrall his credit and honour to Harlots." But we rarely use even this sense of mental or moral enslavement anymore. Today the word is often used in its participle form, "enthralled," which sometimes means "temporarily spellbound" ("we listened, enthralled, to the old woman's oral history"), but more often suggests a state of being generally captivated, delighted, or taken by some particular thing.

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

The true road to pre-eminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line.

Andrew Carnegie (1837-1919) American Industrialist and Philanthropist