Meaning of slave | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control
2. A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.
3. Synonym of Sclavia.
4. A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant
5. A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.
   figuratively
6. One who works or toils tirelessly:drudge, fag, grub, plodder.
7. An abject person
8. An abject person.
   figuratively
9. To do tedious, laborious, and sometimes menial work:drudge, grub, plod, slog.
10. One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the domination of something
11. One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the domination of something.
    figuratively
12. to work very hard, often for another person. I've been slaving away for you all day while you sit and watch television. afsloof يَعْمَلُ عن غَيْرِه عملا شاقّا слугувам labutar otročit schuften slave; slide og slæbe δουλεύω σαν σκλάβος trabajar como una bestia, trabajar como un negro rügama خر حمالي كردن raataa trimer לַעֲבוֹד כְּמוֹ עֶבֶד दासतापूर्ण काम करना raditi kao rob, ubijati se od posla agyondolgozza magát (vki helyett) bekerja keras þræla sgobbare 献身的に働く 노예같이 뼈빠지게 일하다 vergauti vergot ...
13. A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who consensually submits to, sexually or personally, serving one or more masters or mistresses
14. A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who consensually submits to, sexually or personally, serving one or more masters or mistresses.
15. One who is owned as the property of someone else, especially in involuntary servitude.
16. A sex slave, a person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts on a regular or continuing basis.
17. One who is subservient to or controlled by another: his boss's slave.
18. One who is subject to or controlled by a specified influence: a slave to alcohol; a slave to an irrational fear.
19. A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).
20. One who works extremely hard.
21. One who acts out the role of the submissive partner in a sadomasochistic relationship.
22. A slave ant.
23. A machine or component controlled by another machine or component.

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Examples

“Fear of their cargo bred a savage cruelty into the crew. One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with the same torture. Such incidents were not rare.”

“Art thou the ſlaue that with thy breath haſt kill'd / Mine innocent child?”

“a slave to passion, to strong drink, or to ambition”

“Slave to the rhythm! / Keep it up, keep it up! / Never stop! Never stop!”

“In the clip the black female “slave” dons a chain around her neck for which her white mistress possesses the key. The black woman sub is further disciplined by the power of speech—the force of silence.”

“If you administer your own reverse DNS zones, remember to include them in your slave configuration.”

“Slaves or Slavì of Pomerania, with their confederates defeated near Lunden in Scania, […]”

“Moldavia and Wallachia, inhabited by Slaves nominally belonging to the Turkish empire, are in the actual military occupation of Russia. Servia, inhabited by the Slavic Serbs, is avowedly disloyal to the Porte, […]”

“It extended then far into Hungary, and the ancient limits of the land of these so-called Pannonic Slaves are the same which at present mark the extent of the language. […] A considerable number of Slaves in the Russian province of Silesia are said to speak the same languages slightly modified.”

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