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slavered

slavered is the simple past and past participle of slaver.

Meaning of slaver

Verb

slaver (third-person singular simple present slavers, present participle slavering, simple past and past participle slavered)

  1. (intransitive) To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.
  2. (intransitive) To fawn.
  3. (intransitive) To be drooled out of someone’s mouth.
    • A fearsome sight it was to behold how he swelled in his wrath, and his eyes blazed like disastrous stars at midnight, and being wood with anger he gnashed his teeth till the froth stood at his lips and slavered down his chin.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 27
  4. (transitive) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth.
  5. To be besmeared with saliva.
    • should I, damn'd then, / Slaver with lips as common as the stairs / That mount the Capitolc. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act 1, scene 7

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Questions about slavered

What is slavered the simple past and past participle of?
Slavered is the simple past and past participle of slaver.

Words near slavered in the dictionary

  1. slaveocrats
  2. slaveowner
  3. slaveowners
  4. slaveownership
  5. slaver
  6. slavered
  7. slaverer
  8. slaverers
  9. slaveries
  10. slavering
  11. slaveringly

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