slave

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

slaves

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

slave

past (v2)

slaved

past participle (v3)

slaved

present participle

slaving

3rd person singular

slaves

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.

2. 2.An abject person.

3. 3.One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the domination of something.

   • Slave to the rhythm! / Keep it up, keep it up! / Never stop! Never stop!

4. 4.A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To work as a slaver, to enslave people.

   • The truth is from the Zambesi to Lake Nyasa on the north and east banks of the river, there is nothing but slaving, Africans selling each other . .
   • With ready access to firearms through trade, the slaving Africans held a distinct upper-hand over the groups they preyed upon, which were often politically and socially weakened or destroyed by the trade.

2. 2.To work hard.

   • I was slaving all day over a hot stove.

3. 3.To place a device under the control of another.

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