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taking slave

taking slave is the present participle and gerund of take slave.

Meaning of take slave

Verb

take slave (third-person singular simple present takes slave, present participle taking slave, simple past took slave, past participle taken slave)

  1. To enslave someone; to strip someone of their freedom.
    • His Behaviour brings to my Mind that of a certain proud beggarly Spaniard, of the Ausirian Faction, who, being taken Slave by the Algerines, came to our Conful Cole, who had an Order, from his Correspondent at Barcelona, to endeavour to redeem him.1731, Joseph Morgan, chapter IV, in History of Algiers, page 271

Questions about taking slave

What is taking slave the present participle and gerund of?
Taking slave is the present participle and gerund of take slave.

Words near taking slave in the dictionary

  1. taking shape
  2. taking ship
  3. taking shipping
  4. taking sides
  5. taking silk
  6. taking slave
  7. taking soil
  8. taking some beating
  9. taking some doing
  10. taking someone at their word
  11. taking someone down the garden path

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