slipping

verbfall; glide
verberr

Synonyms for slipping

verb fall; glide

Antonyms for slipping

Word Origin & History

early 14c., "to escape, to move softly and quickly," from an unrecorded Old English word or cognate Middle Low German slippen "to glide, slide," from Proto-Germanic *slipan (cf. Old High German slifan, Middle Dutch slippen, German schleifen "to glide, slide"), from PIE *sleib-, from root *(s)lei- "slimy, sticky, slippery" (see slime (n.)).

From mid-14c. with senses "lose one's footing," "slide out of place," "fall into error or fault." Sense of "pass unguarded or untaken" is from mid-15c. That of "slide, glide" is from 1520s. Transitive sense from 1510s; meaning "insert surreptitiously" is from 1680s. Related: Slipped; slipping. To slip up "make a mistake" is from 1855; to slip through the net "evade detection" is from 1902.

Example Sentences for slipping

Slipping her arm about Evelyn, Grace drew her toward the stairs.

The old night watchman had a way of slipping up on one nodding.

Stoliker produced a key and unlocked the manacles, slipping them into his pocket.

It was like slipping on a bit of orange peel in the dark and breaking your leg.

"I'll take it, then," said Bywater, slipping it into his pocket.

"I thought as much," said Pembroke, slipping them into his pocket.

Sure, such a horse for slipping from under one was never bestridden by man.'

Slipping quietly from my couch, so as not to wake the mate, I stole upon deck.

Her sleeves were rolled up and her camisole was slipping down her shoulders.

He felt it slipping down into his empty stomach, like a steam of molten lead.

slipping

Synonyms for slipping

Antonyms for slipping

falling

retrograde

slipping

Synonyms for slipping

Antonyms for slipping

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