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verb

ˈslīd How to pronounce slide (audio)
Definition of slidenext
1
as in to sneak
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 to flow
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 to crawl
to move slowly with the body close to the ground the convict escaped by sliding through the prison's ductwork

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slide

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noun

as in flood
a large mass especially of snow, ice, dirt, or rocks descending from a high place The slide caused by the storm made the road impassable.

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Recent Examples of slide
Verb
This may be a pattern that repeats itself, especially given cooler temperatures expected to continue sliding in over the next two weeks — with high temps comfortably in the 80s for much of the Central Valley. — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2026 The debris avalanche, or landslide, slid down 6,000 feet on the slope, the USGS said. — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
Noun
An attacker using a cloned voice to impersonate an executive on a call to the help desk isn’t defeated by a Zero Trust slide deck. — Michael Flannery, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026 Our home, a 3-story, 11-bedroom palace with with an arcade and a slide between floors three and two, couldn’t have been more perfect for our group. — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for slide
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slide
  1. sneak
  2. flow
  3. crawl
  4. flood
  5. slip
  6. glide
  7. creep
  8. landslide
Verb
  • Manual friction sneaks in as systems fail to scale with growth or suffer from poor implementation.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Both were placed on IR-return, which allowed 23-year-old Jacob Bayer to sneak onto the roster after a fantastic camp.
    — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of sneak
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  • When local issues become national issues Nationalization does not only flow from Washington down.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Prices for most types of petroleum products have gone up since the war with Iran began in late February, amid limits on how much could flow through the Strait of Hormuz.
    — Willa Rubin, NPR, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of flow
Verb
  • Installation doesn’t require crews to manually crawl along hundreds of miles of line.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The Leao Tires subbrand has a huge range of truck, bus, and tractor tires for everything from daily driving on pavement to slow crawling through muddy farm fields.
    — Michael Febbo, The Drive, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of crawl
Noun
  • The dam failed, triggering a catastrophic flood and contributing to failures at other dams downstream.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Now there’s widespread pushback against the flood of Chinese exports.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of flood
Verb
  • The metalpoint tool sometimes slips or skitters; the fountain pen sometimes stops working—though, deprived of vision, the artist is unaware, and keeps drawing the now-invisible line.
    — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The 49ers, an otherwise good team, have for the past couple of months been weaving and slipping bad news like a boxer trying to avoid a knockout punch.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of slip
Verb
  • Merino glided away from challenges to keep Arsenal in control.
    — Thom Harris, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Sea facing suites have views over the harbor and terraces set up with chairs and tables for watching the boats glide in and out.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of glide
Verb
  • The location opened Monday, welcoming a consistent rush of customers into the space, even as the afternoon waned and crept into the neither-lunch-nor-dinner hours.
    — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Up to half of the more than 200,000 mountain glaciers — vast, slow moving rivers of ice that creep across the world’s peaks — are expected to disappear by the end of this century, even if ambitious climate goals are met.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of creep
Noun
  • Researchers believe volcanic activity triggered an underwater landslide and caused a large chunk of Anak Krakatau’s southwest slope to collapse and displace a large volume of water.
    — Tatan Syuflana, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • All that changed on August 26, when the port was engulfed by an enormous wave of water – as the first point of impact from a landslide and explosive flooding that then ripped into Nepal.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of landslide

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