slave
noun
a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another and forced to provide unpaid labor.
had slaved
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past perfectof slave.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Her fantastically amazing friends, Eric and Ralph, had slaved away cooking a lovely meal for eight sophisticated guests, who also happened to be wildly interesting and fabulous.
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2013
Then Khrushchev abruptly asked whether anyone knew of any descendants of a Frenchman named Lebrun who had owned the Ukrainian mine where he had slaved as a youth.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fact was, Ethel had slaved unceasingly, but unseen, for the patient above stairs.
From On the Firing Line by Hamilton Brock Fuller
Foster Hooker, too, had slaved his life away for nothing.
From The She Boss A Western Story by Arthur Preston Hankins
After he had slaved for years to give the ungrateful whelp every luxury!
From Cost of Living by Ed Emshwiller
