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slavering

/ˈslævəɹɪŋ/

slavering is the present participle and gerund 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

See all 9 meanings of slaver

Adjective

slavering (not comparable)

  1. drooling saliva

Noun

slavering (plural slaverings)

  1. saliva dropped from the mouth
    • This Ra was not willing to divulge, but he was old at this time, and Isis got him into her power, for she formed a serpent from his slaverings and the earth and set it in the path of the god, who was bitten and brought near death […]1988, Marian Edwardes, A Dictionary of Non-Classical Mythology

Forms of slavering

pluralslaverings

Questions about slavering

What does slavering mean?
Slavering means drooling saliva.
What is slavering the present participle and gerund of?
Slavering is the present participle and gerund of slaver.
What part of speech is slavering?
Slavering can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce slavering?
Slavering is pronounced /ˈslævəɹɪŋ/.

Words near slavering in the dictionary

  1. slaver
  2. slavered
  3. slaverer
  4. slaverers
  5. slaveries
  6. slavering
  7. slaveringly
  8. slaverings
  9. slavers
  10. slavery
  11. slaves

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