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SLIP AWAY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pass by

Example:

three years elapsed

Synonyms:

elapse; glide by; go along; go by; lapse; pass; slide by; slip away; slip by

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "slip away" is one way to...):

advance; go on; march on; move on; pass on; progress (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "slip away"):

fell; fly; vanish (pass away rapidly)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Leave furtively and stealthily

Example:

The lecture was boring and many students slipped out when the instructor turned towards the blackboard

Synonyms:

slip away; sneak away; sneak off; sneak out; steal away

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "slip away" is one way to...):

go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Credits

 Context examples: 

I proposed to walk the distance quietly by myself; and very quietly, after leaving my box in the ostler's care, did I slip away from the George Inn, about six o'clock of a June evening, and take the old road to Thornfield: a road which lay chiefly through fields, and was now little frequented.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)