Man depressed by second person almost getting into bondage (6)
I believe the answer is:
yoking
'into bondage' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'man depressed by second person almost' is the wordplay.
'man' becomes 'king' (king is a kind of man**).
'depressed by' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue, some letters go below others).
'second person' becomes 'you' (I've seen this before).
'almost' means to remove the last letter (most of the word but not all of it).
'you' with its last letter taken away is 'yo'.
'king' after 'yo' is 'YOKING'.
'getting' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for yoking that I've seen before include "Coupling (horses/oxen) to cart" , "results in enslavement" , "Joining" .)