Slave - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- someone who works as hard as a slave
- someone entirely dominated by some influence or person
a slave to cocaine
his mother was his abject slave
verb
Extra examples
He treats her like a slave.
Do it yourself! I'm not your slave!
I slaved all morning to get the work done on time.
She's been slaving away at her homework.
I get so tired of slaving at this work day after day.
By slaving away for two hours, I at last got the cooker clean.
I've been slaving away at this report.
He's been slaving over his history essay.
As a slave he was required to do his master's bidding without question.
They discovered that the slave was a fugitive.
...his heartless whipping of runaway slaves virtually to the point of death shocked even other slave owners...
...a novel about a libidinous lawyer who becomes an abject slave to his sexual addiction...
...one of the characters in the novel is a slave driver of such malignity that he came to be one of the most famous villains in all of literature...
...the Fugitive Slave Act had the effect of returning slaves who had made it to freedom in the North to a brutal life of servitude in the South...
The new boss is a real slave driver.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: slave
he/she/it: slaves
present participle: slaving
past tense: slaved
past participle: slaved
singular: slave
plural: slaves
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