SLAVING Synonyms: 85 Similar and Opposite Words

slaving

verb

present participle of slave

as in laboring

to devote serious and sustained effort slaving over a hot stove

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Recent Examples of slaving Po’s journey begins while slaving away at his boring noodle job on the day the Dragon Warrior is to be chosen. — Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Nov. 2025 Maybe entrepreneurship to you means slaving away behind a laptop, answering to clients, suppliers and team members. — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025 After two years away on loan while Leeds were slaving away in the second tier, the winger has returned to find his old No 11 shirt in Brenden Aaronson’s possession. — The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025 Defined by exhaustion from slaving away at the ironing board while confronting the latest family crisis, Angela is quite capable of whipping up baloney sandwiches with mayonnaise for all and functions as a wise-cracking, big-hearted den mother. — Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaving

Verb

McNeely’s portrait of a laboring mother, swathed in glowing fields of chartreuse, outshines (again, literally) art history’s greats.

— Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
In line with the great tech selloff over AI spending fears, Capgemini’s share price has been laboring.

— Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of laboring

Verb

The film followed the trials of a struggling keyboardist who gets hold of a magical synthesizer, only to lose it and embark on a picaresque journey to get it back.

— Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
In other words, Yemen and the Houthis may seem like yet another distant problem to Americans, many of whom are understandably fatigued by foreign interventions, and struggling with a spiraling cost of living.

— Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of struggling

Verb

The team has already constructed a working proof-of-concept that measures magnetic fields by reading the spin states of the NV centers.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026
Agents working with lower-risk candidates may simply be fellow migrants who speak Thai and can help confused and scared people navigate a complex bureaucracy.

— Andrew Nachemson, The Dial, 22 Sep. 2026