Slave

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  • noun. One who is owned as the property of someone else, especially in involuntary servitude.
  • noun. One who is subservient to or controlled by another.
  • noun. One who is subject to or controlled by a specified influence.
  • noun. One who works extremely hard.
  • noun. One who acts out the role of the submissive partner in a sadomasochistic relationship.
  • noun. A slave ant.
  • noun. A machine or component controlled by another machine or component.
  • intransitive verb. To work very hard or doggedly; toil.
  • intransitive verb. To trade in or transport slaves.
  • intransitive verb. To cause a machine or component to be controlled by another machine or component.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To work like a slave; toil; drudge: as, to slave night and day for a miserable living.
  • To enslave.
  • See Slav.
  • noun. A person who is the chattel or property of another and is wholly subject to his will; a bond-servant; a serf. See slavery.
  • noun. One who has lost the power of resistance and is entirely under the influence or domination of some habit or vice: as, a slave to ambition; a slave of drink.
  • noun. One who labors like a slave; a drudge: as, a slave to the desk.
  • noun. An abject wretch; a mean, servile person.
  • noun. In entomology, an insect held captive by or made to work for another, as in some colonies of ants. See slave-making.
  • noun. Synonyms Serf, Slave (see serf), bondman, thrall. See servitude.
  • Performed by slaves: as, slave labor.
  • Containing or holding slaves: as, a slave State.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To enslave.
  • noun. See Slav.
  • intransitive verb. To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave.
  • noun. A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another.
  • noun. One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever.
  • noun. A drudge; one who labors like a slave.
  • noun. An abject person; a wretch.
  • noun. any species of ants which is captured and enslaved by another species, especially Formica fusca of Europe and America, which is commonly enslaved by Formica sanguinea.
  • noun. one who attempted to catch and bring back a fugitive slave to his master.
  • noun. part of the western coast of Africa to which slaves were brought to be sold to foreigners.
  • noun. one who superintends slaves at their work; hence, figuratively, a cruel taskmaster.
  • noun. A search after fugitive slaves, often conducted with bloodhounds.
  • noun. a vessel employed in the slave trade or used for transporting slaves; a slaver.
  • noun. the business of dealing in slaves, especially of buying them for transportation from their homes to be sold elsewhere.
  • noun. one who traffics in slaves.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A person who is the property of another person and whose labor and also whose life often is subject to the owner's volition.
  • noun. A person who is legally obliged by prior contract (oral or written) to work for another, with contractually limited rights to bargain; an indentured servant.
  • noun. A person who is forced against his/her will to perform, for another person or other persons, sexual acts or other personal services on a regular or continuing basis.
  • noun. A device that is controlled by another device.
  • verb. To work hard.
  • verb. To enslave.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a person who is owned by someone
  • verb. work very hard, like a slave
  • noun. someone entirely dominated by some influence or person
  • noun. someone who works as hard as a slave
  • Word Usage
    "Neither a slave nor a free colored person can be a witness against any _white_, or free person, in a court of justice, however atrocious may have been the crimes they have seen him commit, if such testimony would be for the benefit of a _slave_; but they may give testimony"
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