slid

verb

past tense of slide
1
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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2
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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3
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 The online booking company slid more than 13% after issuing mostly weaker-than-expected guidance for the current quarter. — Sarah Min, CNBC, 5 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 Hughes increased his lead slightly from election night, capturing about 53% of the vote while Putz slid to 47%. — Linh Tat, Daily News, 4 Nov. 2026 Zegras slid a pass to Tyson Foerster, who fired a shot on Talbot that Jamie Drysdale tipped into the net with 11 seconds remaining. — CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026 Catcher William Contreras then threw out Simpson attempting to steal second after Simpson slid off the bag. — Zak Gilbert, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slid
  1. sneaked
  2. flowed
  3. crept
  4. slipped
  5. glided
  6. crawled
  7. lurked
  8. drifted
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
  • The discovery of certain minerals, for example, can show that water flowed on Mars long ago, pointing to potentially habitable conditions.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Historic amounts of money have flowed into this year's midterm elections.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2026
Definition of flowed
Verb
  • By spring, with the opportunity fading for a mass relocation of homes and businesses, optimism crept back into public discourse.
    — Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Europe has crept back on the scene in a real negative way, this time with France on the hot seat.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of crept
Verb
  • Shoes are slipped off in corridors before entering the suites, which have simple Japanese names such as Washi (paper), Ishi (stone) and Take (bamboo).
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Nvidia, which makes the chips for most of these AI data center projects, slipped just over 1%.
    — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of slipped
Verb
  • 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
  • Merino glided away from challenges to keep Arsenal in control.
    — Thom Harris, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of glided
Verb
  • Giamanco crawled in through a shot-out window, reached the special education classroom and reracked his firearm in preparation for a deadly confrontation.
    — David K. Li, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026
  • In May 2025, after Williams shut off the water in a cell, 10 inmates removed a toilet, crawled through a gap in the wall and scaled a fence out of the jail.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of crawled
Verb
  • But trouble lurked in a left-field box seat — and at shortstop.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Former landlords lurked in bushes or on roofs or waited in cars outside our home.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 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
Definition of drifted

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“Slid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slid. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026.

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