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
“Advice?” said Tommy, in the halting, fumbling phrases he had slaved to acquire.
From The Fifth-Dimension Tube by Murray Leinster
We had met at my first hut, where he had slaved many days as an extra hand.
From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
For two days they had slaved like navvies—digging, sand-bagging, reorganising trenches, improving communications, and bringing up supplies, Maxims, and ammunition.
From The Kangaroo Marines by R. W. Campbell
