: saliva dribbling from the mouth
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a
: a ship used in the slave trade
b
: a person engaged in the slave trade
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Synonyms
Examples of slaver in a Sentence
Verb
a dog slavering over a bone
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
Barron’s company is at the front of a pack of more than a dozen enterprises slavering over the billions of dollars that could be reaped from those little subsea rocks.
—WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
Technoids would slaver over the computer hardware and software.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Apr. 2021
Donovan X. Ramsey, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2024
Avery, in the guise of Bridgeman, pretended his ship was a slaver bending the rules as so many did, trafficking enslaved Africans and elephant tusks without the seal of approval from the Royal African Company, which owned the British crown’s monopoly over the trade.
—Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
The proliferation of the American ship and flag — used by slavers of all nationalities — in the illicit commerce soon provoked alarm among diplomats.
—Rafael Vilela, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024
Historians say the most notorious slavers used their wealth to fund the bank or staff it.
—Marina Dias, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
Twenty-three states display at least one slaver, while nine states display two statues of slavers, according to Brockell.
—Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
Not only was its initial capital drawn from slavery, historians say; its original vice president and director were also notorious slavers.
—Marina Dias, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
In June 2021, then–Minority Leader McCarthy joined 59 of his GOP colleagues to pass a resolution to replace a slaver bust with an artwork of Thurgood Marshall.
—Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
The quasi-aristocratic African slaver class, created through trade with the West, was parasitic and reliant on its connection to the slave ships sailing across the Atlantic, says M’Baye, suffocating any real political power that might have emerged in Africa.
—Lynsey Chutel, Quartz Africa, 13 Oct. 2020
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
Barron’s company is at the front of a pack of more than a dozen enterprises slavering over the billions of dollars that could be reaped from those little subsea rocks.
—WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
Technoids would slaver over the computer hardware and software.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Apr. 2021
Noun
Then-Mayor Todd Strange expressed concerns that one of the markers, which named slave traders, would offend the descendants of former slavers, before ultimately backing the project.
—Donovan X. Ramsey, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2024
Avery, in the guise of Bridgeman, pretended his ship was a slaver bending the rules as so many did, trafficking enslaved Africans and elephant tusks without the seal of approval from the Royal African Company, which owned the British crown’s monopoly over the trade.
—Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
The proliferation of the American ship and flag — used by slavers of all nationalities — in the illicit commerce soon provoked alarm among diplomats.
—Rafael Vilela, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024
Historians say the most notorious slavers used their wealth to fund the bank or staff it.
—Marina Dias, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
Twenty-three states display at least one slaver, while nine states display two statues of slavers, according to Brockell.
—Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
Not only was its initial capital drawn from slavery, historians say; its original vice president and director were also notorious slavers.
—Marina Dias, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
In June 2021, then–Minority Leader McCarthy joined 59 of his GOP colleagues to pass a resolution to replace a slaver bust with an artwork of Thurgood Marshall.
—Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
The quasi-aristocratic African slaver class, created through trade with the West, was parasitic and reliant on its connection to the slave ships sailing across the Atlantic, says M’Baye, suffocating any real political power that might have emerged in Africa.
—Lynsey Chutel, Quartz Africa, 13 Oct. 2020
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“Slaver.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slaver. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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slaver
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slav·er
ˈslā-vər
: a person or ship engaged in the slave trade
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