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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of slave.

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Examples

  • The little replicators are now all "slaved" -- no longer running loose but under tight control -- and they scurry about busily; the astonishing sharp shadows and black sky still delight him.

    Mother Of Storms Barnes, John, 1957- 1994

  • By Don Marquis, in "archys life of mehitabel," if all the verse what i have wrote were boiled together in a kettle twould make a meal for every goat from nome to popocatapetl mexico and all the prose what i have penned if laid together end to end would reach from russia to south bend indiana but all the money what i saved from all them works at which i slaved is not enough to get me shaved every morning and all the dams which i care if heaped together in the air would not reach much of anywhere they wouldnt because i dont shave everyday and i write for arts sake anyway and always hate to take my pay

    archy s autobiography 1933

  • There he would have the assistance of a friend who "more than anyone else anywhere has for almost fifteen years now encouraged me, kept after me, slaved with me over my writing as an editor and a friend … there is no longer anyone in your firm with whom I have anything even approaching this kind of relationship which is of such great importance to me."

    2009 September 15 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

  • Seein 'you love your sister so much better than your wife, wby did you want to marry me, that's borne your children for you, an' slaved for you, an 'toiled for you, an' worked her fingernails off for you, with no thanks, an 'insultin' me before the children, an 'sayin' I'm crazy to their faces.

    CHAPTER XIX 2010

  • People set themselves up over money or have even killed and some are en-slaved to money.

    Interview Thursday. "No Woman Should Lose her Identity" Says ALOTED 2009

  • There he would have the assistance of a friend who "more than anyone else anywhere has for almost fifteen years now encouraged me, kept after me, slaved with me over my writing as an editor and a friend … there is no longer anyone in your firm with whom I have anything even approaching this kind of relationship which is of such great importance to me."

    Serious novelists used to believe more strongly in their own competence 2009

  • They slaved away until the coffee was gone, the custodians had vacuumed, and the sun had long ago disappeared.

    Suicide Draft Nathaniel Tower 2011

  • Or forced to become a sex slaved … then killed in the most gruesome fashion possible.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 16, 2010 2010

  • It's just like when your teacher gives you back the book report you slaved over and thought was perfect.

    An Interview with Janet Tashjian 2010

  • Dont be an ant slaved to a queen, go forth, be free.

    Think Progress » Wall Street Bankers And Investors Fund New Media Platform For Gov. Bob McDonnell’s SOTU Response 2010

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