slave

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Synonyms: suave, slake, stave, lave, slate, save, shave, slive, glave, slade, slane

Antonyms: suave, slake, stave, lave, slate, save, shave, slive, glave, slade, slane

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Noun

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. {{lb|en|figuratively}} 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]].
3. {{lb|en|figuratively}} An [[abject]] person.
4. {{lb|en|figuratively}} One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the [[domination]] of something.
5. {{lb|en|BDSM}} A [[submissive]] partner in a [[BDSM]] relationship who [[consensually]] [[submit]]s to, sexually or personally, serving one or more [[master]]s or [[mistress]]es.
6. 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.
7. {{lb|en|engineering|computing|photography}} A [[device]] (such as a secondary [[flash]] or [[hard drive]]) that is subject to the control of another (a [[master]]).

Verb

1. To [[work]] as a [[slaver]], to [[enslave]] people.
2. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[work]] [[hard]].
3. {{lb|en|transitive}} To place a [[device]] under the [[control]] of another.

Proper noun

1. {{alternative form of|en|Slavey}}.
2. {{synonym of|en|Sclavia}}.

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