Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

slave away

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.29 in modern English

Syllables: slave -away
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To work very hard.

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

"Rochelle is a perfectionistic, timid, dutiful girl, and she has been slaving away for hours on her math."
"Thomas Anderson works at what is presumably a moderately well paying middle-class professional job, but his life as a computer programmer for a large corporation, slaving away in a tiny cubicle in a high-rise office building, seems seems mind-numbingly boring and routine."
"I slaved away in my tiny kitchen, gradually developing my own techniques in my quest for perfect results."

Usage

Intransitive verb

Inflected Forms

slaves away (present, singular) slaving away (participle, present) slaved away (participle, past) slaved away (past)

Questions

What does slave away mean?: To work very hard.

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