slaved
past simple and past participle ofslave
slave
verb[Iusually+ adv/prep]
informaluk/sleɪv/us/sleɪv/toworkvery hard at something:
We slavedawayallweekatthereport.
humorousI've been slavingover ahotstove(=cooking)allmorning.
See also
enslave
Work, working and the workplace
- act assomething
- all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)idiom
- assignment
- bandh
- be at workidiom
- cabin
- hoop
- hotelling
- housekeeping
- in the line of dutyidiom
- induction
- industry
- job
- labour
- slog
- slouch
- spadework
- subtask
- sweat
- sweat oversomething
Examplesofslaved
slaved
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
For 510 of these 585 voyages, though, we can make reasonable assumptions about where the ship probablyslaved.
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Our people haveslavedand worked for generations, have fought in two world wars, and they have never been adequately housed.
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They are the men who haveslavedand toiled for religion all their days.
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He hasslavedaway, travelling from one end of the world to the other to obtain orders.
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Heslavedaway on this issue and worked tirelessly to produce a solution.
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My postbag has been full of appeals from women who say that they haveslavedto bring up their children.
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They haveslavedfor ten years to give the child a chance in life.
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Many of them have worked andslavedfor 25 years to build these twin nationalised industries into what they are today.
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Those people were promised that during the time they worked andslavedin the industry.
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Weslavedand toiled in vain.
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They are only people who haveslavedaway and may have had a rough deal, whose husbands have pushed off and who have to live on the income they get.
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Modern civilian air traffic and military combat systems depend upon a custom track algorithms used with real-time computingslavedto displays and peripherals.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.An article in the town newspaper from a citizen lamented the lack of fire-fighting facilities and deplored the pilfering of goodsslavedfrom the fire.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theseslavedgyros reduce pilot workload by eliminating the need for manual realignment every ten to fifteen minutes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Moreover, whenslavedto the all-axis auto pilot, the inertial navigation system could fly the aircraft hands off to up to nine individual waypoints.
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- methodological principle
- methodological problem
- methodological quality
- methodological shortcomings
- methodology
- methods of pest control
- method study
- method-study
- method variance
- methotrexate
- meths
- Methuselah
- methyl
- methylate
- methylated spirits
- methylated-spirits
- methylation
- methylation pattern
- methylene
- methylene blue
- methylene-blue
- methylene chloride
- methyl group
- methyl-group
- methyl orange