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Synonyms for slipping
slip·ping
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Princeton's WordNet
slipping, slitheringadjective
moving as on a slippery surface
"his slipping and slithering progress over the ice"
Synonyms:
slitheringAntonyms:
nonslippery
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "slipping":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#11474 | sliding | |
#21789 | slipping | |
#61376 | infiltrating | |
#121076 | slithering |
How to use slipping in a sentence?
So all the chairs... they were slipping backward. And as gravity works they started to go faster and faster and people were jumping off at the lower levels.
International anti-trafficking standards have evolved, standing still is slipping backward in the face of a growing global challenge.
There's still plenty of sense that we need to address the slipping away of the American dream with blue-collar America, we didn't do it in 2016. But we're not about to concede that or to give it up.
When you’re on the road and you haven’t faced the crowd in a year and all of a sudden the game starts slipping out of your hands and you’re trying to get it back, things can happen at 1,000 mph, for a player, if you haven’t been in that environment for a while, it takes some getting used to again.
It just seemed so outrageous. Here I am, talking to somebody who I think is flipped out. I said, what train am I on ? OK. Humor the guy. And he wanted me to do Michael Corleone. I thought, OK, I ’ll go along with this. I said, yes, Francis, good. You know how they talk to you when you’re slipping ? They say, ‘ Yes ! Of course ! Yes ! ’ But he was n’t. It was the truth. And then I was given the part.
Translations for slipping
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- glissementFrench
- DeslizamentoPortuguese
- 滑倒Chinese
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