SLID Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

slid

verb

past tense of slide

as in sneaked

to move about in a sly or secret manner slid gently into his seat without anyone else in church noticing

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as in flowed

to move or proceed smoothly and readily at this point the river slides along its banks with barely a ripple

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as in crept

to move slowly with the body close to the ground the convict escaped by sliding through the prison's ductwork

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Recent Examples of slid Coherent stock also slid roughly 4%, and Lumentum stock fell 5%. — Kif Leswing,annie Palmer,kevin Breuninger,samantha Subin,ashley Capoot, CNBC, 12 Nov. 2026 Florida doubled its lead just more than two minutes later when Carter Verhaeghe gathered a loose puck and slid a slick pass through the legs of Provorov to a trailing Eller, who buried the puck in the back of the net. — Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2026 Nvidia's stock price slid on Monday amid questions about CEO Jensen Huang's future at the chipmaker, following the board of directors' investigation into allegations that China targeted him in an intelligence operation. — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2026 Eric slid his arm under the car seat handle and lifted his 11-day-old daughter out of the car. — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 8 Nov. 2026 Four-year graduation rates at East Aurora also slid downward slightly, from a little over 90% in 2025 to just over 87%, this year’s report card data shows. — Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2026 Elon Musk’s companies SpaceX and Tesla each slid around 10%, largely in response to the midterm results. — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 5 Nov. 2026

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Verb

Somewhere in New York, Chinese spies snuck in too-thick ballot paper.

— Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2026
Boise State snuck into the final spot of the rankings with an overall record of 7-1 and an unblemished 4-0 record in Pac-12 play.

— Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of sneaked

Verb

For months now, so much vitriol crept into our TVs, interrupting the Bears or your favorite college football team with a special message from a super PAC or a partisan looking to score points by smearing their opponents.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
LePage’s decision to spend more time in Florida after leaving the governor’s mansion has also crept into the consideration of at least some voters following a drumbeat of attacks by Dunlap.

— David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of crept

Verb

An early 1990s recession clobbered Nasdaq, but home prices slipped only modestly, down 1% annually.

— Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 11 Nov. 2026
The observation comes after the Nasdaq Composite slipped earlier this week, as losses in Nvidia led tech stocks lower.

— Liz Napolitano,Hugh Leask,Lee Ying Shan,Fred Imbert, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of slipped

Verb

Outside the double-height windows, bands of pigeons glided through the middle distance.

— Nolan Kelly, Artforum, 26 Oct. 2026
The pinkish squid glided two miles beneath the surface, its long, pale legs trailing from undulating fins, stunning scientists who know remarkably little about its diet, behavior or reproduction.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of glided

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This year has both flown past and also crawled along at a snail’s pace.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026
The lawsuit says Brave crawled and copied content from more than 30 billion webpages in its index without identifying itself or providing the owners of websites any mechanism to block its crawler, according to the newspapers’ complaint.

— Molly Crane Newman, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of crawled

Verb

In the rugged mountains of Afghanistan, on the morning of March 11, 2013, something lurked just below the surface of a young Afghan man, a boy, really.

— Ron Farina, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026
Like fossils of prehistoric life, the evidence of all these past relationships lurked in the debris of our Connecticut household.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of lurked

Verb

But as the boat drifted nearby under a vast, cloudless sky, a pod of pink river dolphins broke the glassy, reflective surface just yards away, their rosy dorsal fins glistening in the late-afternoon sun.

— Liam Hess, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2026
The big rig traveling in the far right northbound lane of the highway drifted, for unknown reasons, into the right shoulder and hit both vehicles.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2026

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