thrall

He is a thrall to drink.

He is(in) thrall to his passions.

At the concert, I was held in thrall by the music.

Anti-thrall leaders agitated the question of thrall for many years.

The country’s economy is largely in thrall to the big companies.

she wasin thrall to her abusive husband.

He forced his thralls into hard labour.

He was accused of stirring up the thralls against their masters.

Radically, they want to decentralise the top-heavy system in which local politicians are in thrall to Tokyo's pork providers;

They are in thrall not to John Maynard Keynes, sage of the Depression, but to his Cambridge contemporary, Frank Ramsey, a precocious polymath who made his contributions in the prelapsarian 1920s.