MEANING
To let saliva run from the mouth, especially visibly or excessively.
Use it for
A hungry creature's mouth; excess saliva before an attack; appetite made physically repellentShow appetite through saliva while avoiding unsupported medical inference.
Words that belong together
- slavering jaws
- slaver over prey
- slaver at the mouth
On the page
The animal slavered against the cage bars.
Its lower mouth began to slaver when she moved.
Behind the curtain, the creature's wet breathing was audible; when the fabric shifted, he saw it slavering.
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Word forms
- Base
- slaver / slavers
- Past tense
- slavered
- Past participle
- slavered
- Present participle
- slavering
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- slaver / slavers
- Present continuous
- am/is/are slavering
- Present perfect
- have/has slavered
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been slavering
- Past
- slavered
- Past continuous
- was/were slavering
- Past perfect
- had slavered
- Past perfect continuous
- had been slavering
- Future
- will slaver / slavers
- Future continuous
- will be slavering
- Future perfect
- will have slavered
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been slavering
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Often suggests animal hunger or predatory appetite in fiction; illness and ordinary physiology are different possible causes. Not a diagnosis of rabies. Verb [base, third-person present, past, past participle, -ing]: slaver, slavers, slavered, slavered, slavering.
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