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slave

UK/sleɪv/ US/ˈsleɪv/ common
noun (3) adjective (1) verb (1)

noun

1.

a person who is owned by someone

2.

someone who works as hard as a slave

Synonyms
3.

someone entirely dominated by some influence or person

  • “a slave to fashion”
  • “a slave to cocaine”
  • “his mother was his abject slave”

adjective

1.

held in servitude

  • “he was born of slave parents”
Antonyms
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verb

1.

Phrases

  • app slave
  • blood-red slave-maker
  • cock slave
  • debt slave
  • energy slave
  • field slave
  • financial slave
  • galley slave
  • slave away

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