slaved
Worked oneself ragged
Slaved is the past tense of slave, meaning to work extremely hard or laboriously: She slaved over the report all weekend, He slaved away in the kitchen preparing dinner.
The usage implies grueling, often thankless effort.
In computing, slaved describes a device configured to operate under another's control: The backup drive was slaved to the primary.
Exerted oneself strenuously
- drudgeryHard, boring work
- grindCrush into particles
- slogLaborious persistent effort
- gruelingExtremely tiring and demanding
backbreaking · exhausting · tireless · arduous · strenuous · sweated · labored · worked
Large-scale farming operation
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
chattel · slaveholder · auction · fugitive · Middle Passage · triangular trade · reconstruction · indentured
toiled
Exerted oneself strenuously
grueling · backbreaking · exhausting · tireless · arduous · strenuous · sweated · labored · worked · struggled
plantation
Large-scale farming operation
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- antebellumBefore a war's start
manumission · chattel · slaveholder · auction · fugitive · Middle Passage · triangular trade · reconstruction · indentured · servitude
exploited
Unfairly utilized for benefit
- oppressedTreated with cruel control
- dominatedControlled or overpowered
- coercedPressured into compliance
controlled · subjugated · powerless · servile · obedient · commanded · ordered · forced · compelled · bound
slavedcommanded
Gave authoritative instructions
delegated · supervised · directed · managed · ruled
slavedidled
Operated without load
wasted time · frittered · dallied · procrastinated · goofed off
- modern slaveryCurrent forced labor exploitation
- sex slavesPeople held for exploitation
- slave tradeCommerce in human beings
- slave to fashionOne controlled by trends
- slave driverHarshly demanding boss
- slave awayWork extremely hard
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