slave

Definition

• n. a person who is owned by someone
• n. someone who works as hard as a slave
• n. someone entirely dominated by some influence or person
• v. work very hard, like a slave

Word forms

Present participle

slaving

Past participle

slaved

Past tense

slaved

Third person singular

slaves

Example sentences

1. n.

   Throughout history, many people have fought against the injustice of being treated like a slave.

2. vi.

   He had to slave away at the office to meet the project deadline.

3. n.

   In a computer network, each slave device responds to commands from the master device.