: saliva dribbling from the mouth
1
a
: a ship used in the slave trade
b
: a person engaged in the slave trade
2
Synonyms
Examples of slaver in a Sentence
Verb
a dog slavering over a bone
Noun (1)
slaver dripped from the snarling dog's jaws
Recent Examples on the Web
Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
Just don’t become a streak-Gollum like me, slavering miserably and alone over your treasure in a dank mental cave.
—John Hodgman, New York Times, 27 July 2023
It’s aided in this by the natural grandeur of its painterly environments, which, even when littered with dead bodies and slavering monsters, create an imperative to preserve a fictional world that extends beyond exposition about the importance of doing so.
—WIRED, 24 June 2023
Not backed up by the whole of law enforcement, mind you, because otherwise, there’d be no story, no slavering depictions of depravity, no waltz into the abyss and no righteous body count.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
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Verb
One decorous young professional after another is attacked and transformed into a slavering monster, until at last all the residents converge in the heated pool.
—Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
Just don’t become a streak-Gollum like me, slavering miserably and alone over your treasure in a dank mental cave.
—John Hodgman, New York Times, 27 July 2023
It’s aided in this by the natural grandeur of its painterly environments, which, even when littered with dead bodies and slavering monsters, create an imperative to preserve a fictional world that extends beyond exposition about the importance of doing so.
—WIRED, 24 June 2023
Not backed up by the whole of law enforcement, mind you, because otherwise, there’d be no story, no slavering depictions of depravity, no waltz into the abyss and no righteous body count.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
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“Slaver.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slaver. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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slaver
2 of 2 noun
slav·er
ˈslā-vər
1
: a person who traffics or holds enslaved people
2
a ship used to traffic enslaved people
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