Definition Of Slave Verb From The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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Definition of slave verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

slave verb  /sleɪv/  /sleɪv/[intransitive]Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they slave	/sleɪv/  /sleɪv/
he / she / it slaves	/sleɪvz/  /sleɪvz/
past simple slaved	/sleɪvd/  /sleɪvd/
past participle slaved	/sleɪvd/  /sleɪvd/
-ing form slaving	/ˈsleɪvɪŋ/  /ˈsleɪvɪŋ/

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1. slave (away) (at something) to work very hard
   • I've been slaving away all day trying to get this work finished.
   • I haven't got time to spend hours slaving over a hot stove (= doing a lot of cooking).
   Word OriginMiddle English: shortening of Old French esclave, equivalent of medieval Latin sclava (feminine) ‘Slavonic (captive)’: the Slavonic peoples had been reduced to a servile state by conquest in the 9th cent.

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