slaved
SaySLAYVD/sleɪvd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of slave.
He slaved for years to build the business from nothing.
The cooks slaved through the night to prepare the banquet.
Note
A regular past form, so one spelling covers both the simple past and the perfect: they slaved, they had slaved away for hours. When it means working hard, it takes no object. The technical meaning of putting one device under another's control takes an object, so there the participle also forms passives (one unit is slaved to another), which the hard-work meaning cannot do.
slaved is a form of slave
slave, verb: To work very hard, with continuous and tiring effort. Full entry
- Spelling
- slave → slaved: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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