Synonyms of slaved

slaved

verb

past tense of slave

as in labored

to devote serious and sustained effort

slaving over a hot stove

Synonyms & Similar Words

• labored
• struggled
• worked
• toiled
• endeavored
• tried
• plowed
• hustled
• tugged
• grubbed
• dug (away)
• sweat
• strove
• plugged
• humped
• fagged
• drudged
• slogged
• pegged (away)
• plodded
• travailed
• strained
• banged away
• beavered (away)
• sweat blood
• applied (oneself)
• moiled
• attacked
• hammered (away)
• pitched in
• exerted
• buckled (down)
• exercised
• drove
• dug in
• scratched
• overworked
• essayed
• eked out
• knuckled down
• trudged
• scrabbled
• waded
• ground (out)
• overexerted
• put out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• broke
• slackened
• eased (up)
• chilled
• idled
• loafed
• lounged
• dallied
• lazed
• shirked
• rested
• let up
• hung (around or out)
• slacked (off)
• played
• hacked (around)
• hung
• basked
• lolled
• relaxed
• bummed
• unwound
• reposed
• goofed (off)
• trifled
• dillydallied
• dabbled
• goldbricked
• footled
• doodled
• vegged out
• fooled around
• puttered (around)
• pottered (around)
• hung about
• messed around
• monkeyed (around)
• goofed (around)
• fribbled

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of slaved

Magadan had a deadly reputation in the Stalin era, as a hub for Gulag mines where political prisoners slaved sometimes to death and produced gold and other minerals in the process. —Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026