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Slave   /sleɪv/   Listen
Slave

noun
1.
A person who is owned by someone.
2.
Someone who works as hard as a slave.  Synonyms: hard worker, striver.
3.
Someone entirely dominated by some influence or person.  "A slave to cocaine" , "His mother was his abject slave"
verb
(past & past part. slaved; pres. part. slaving)
1.
Work very hard, like a slave.  Synonyms: break one's back, buckle down, knuckle down.



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"Slave" Quotes from Famous Books



... "you're incorrigible. You will persist in being the slave of prepossessions. He may have some good reason of his own for accepting. Wait till he shows his hand—and then, we ...
— An African Millionaire - Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay • Grant Allen
... obliging men to serve their country," wrote London Carter, "we are sure to hear a fellow mumble over the words 'liberty' and 'property' a thousand times."[335] The people, too, were in mortal fear of a slave insurrection, and therefore dared not go far from home.[336] Meanwhile a panic reigned along the border. Captain Waggoner, passing a gap in the Blue Ridge, could hardly make his way for the crowd of fugitives. "Every day," ...
— Montcalm and Wolfe • Francis Parkman
... slave-ships, stowing the poor wretches so closely locked together, that it is difficult to ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... I do not know! But I care! I would be your woman! I would be your slave! I would wait upon you and serve you faithfully! I would obey your every wish. I am a good servant,—I can cook and sew and wash and sweep—I can do everything in a house and you should have no trouble. You should write and read all ...
— The Secret Power • Marie Corelli
... as it relates to the single medical suggestion which does honor to Cotton Mather's memory. It does not appear that he availed himself of the information which he says, he obtained from his slave, for such ...
— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


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