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

Since the Computing Community Consortium hosted its first conference on thermodynamic computing in 2019, a small community of researchers has been laboring to put it into practice.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 15 July 2026
But others are still at work, laboring under a new collective bargaining agreement with another labor organization, the International Longshoremen’s Association.

— Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026

Definition of laboring

Verb

Small businesses are struggling to hire, with 62% trying to fill positions but 84% unable to find qualified applicants, revealing a significant skills gap.

— Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 12 July 2026
The country is currently struggling with unemployment of around 8%, the UN estimates, and inflation that is running at what the World Bank estimates to be more than 40%.

— Frederik Pleitgen, CNN Money, 11 July 2026

Definition of struggling

Verb

More than 1,100 competitors striving to make it to the top of the country’s largest seven-day table tennis tournament will compete through July 9 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.

— Doug Duran, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
However, labs worldwide are striving to build quantum computers with enough qubits—the quantum equivalent of the bits underlying classical computing—to execute such attacks.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 7 July 2026