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Slave

sleɪv

Slave definitions

noun

Inflections:

slave slaves

a person who is forced to work for and obey another and is considered to be their property; an enslaved person

"they kidnapped entire towns and turned the inhabitants into slaves"

Synonyms:
bondsman bondswoman bondservant bondslave serf vassal thrall
- a person who works very hard without proper remuneration or appreciation
  
  "by the time I was ten, I had become her slave, doing all the housework"
- a person who is excessively dependent upon or controlled by something
  
  "the poorest people of the world are slaves to the banks"
a device, or part of one, directly controlled by another

"a slave cassette deck"

verb

Inflections:

slave slaved slaves slaving

work excessively hard

"after slaving away for fourteen years all he gets is two thousand"

Synonyms:
toil labour grind sweat work one's fingers to the bone work day and night work like a dog work like a Trojan keep one's nose to the grindstone exert oneself grub plod plough
subject (a device) to control by another

"should the need arise, the two channels can be slaved together"
make (someone) a slave; enslave