SLIPPED Synonyms: 158 Similar and Opposite Words

slipped

verb

past tense of slip

as in fell

to decline gradually from a standard level the store's quality of service began to slip after the new owners took over

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as in stumbled

to go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily be careful not to slip on the spilled oil

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as in infiltrated

to introduce in a gradual, secret, or clever way casually slipped it into the conversation

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as in sneaked

to move about in a sly or secret manner slipped behind the cover of the trees

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as in flowed

to move or proceed smoothly and readily jumped into the car and slipped behind the wheel

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as in shed

to cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) aside periodically crabs slip their shells and grow new ones

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Recent Examples of slipped Expedia — Shares of the online travel company slipped about 1% after Morgan Stanley downgraded the stock to underweight. — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026 Stocks slipped Tuesday after oil prices and the bond market cranked up the pressure on Wall Street. — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026 Zimbabwe ran into early trouble through Ellis’ twin strikes in the ninth over and then further slipped to 62-4 in the 14th over when Brendan Taylor holed out off Renshaw’s off-spin. — ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026 My Lychee Tax – a deliciously fruity blend of strawberry rum and lychee purée – slipped down quickly. — Vicki Power, TheWeek, 14 Sep. 2026 Barkley cut to the right to dodge Mike Sainristil and slipped past safety Jeremy Reaves to pick up 42 yards. — Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 Hybrid work increased slightly while fully remote work shrank slightly; average remote hours slipped only from 27 to 26 hours over the measured period. — Gleb Tsipursky, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2026 As the last of the September light slipped behind Central Park Wednesday evening, a small group of guests made their way into the Conservatory Garden, one of the park’s quieter gems and a place that remains unfamiliar even to many New Yorkers. — Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026 The boy who displayed such joy and promise as a child experienced periodic depression as an adult and slipped into drug addiction. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026

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Yet trees that took a millennium to grow can be felled in under an hour.

— Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Vines are pulled away from fences, and sometimes trees are even felled.

— The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2026

Definition of fell

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Portage stumbled into its flock of Flocks after then-Sheriff Dave Reynolds contracted with the company to put them in the city.

— Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026
For all of the anticipation of an explosive new offensive attack sparked by the arrival of new coordinator Mike McDaniel, the Chargers stumbled and fumbled their way through their season debut.

— Doug Haller, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2026

Definition of stumbled

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State health officials suspect that the goats were exposed to rabies by a skunk that infiltrated their pen in late July.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 2 Sep. 2026
Texans have always seemed to relish their otherness, maybe even more so now that, in our age of globalization, so much sameness has infiltrated most American and international cities.

— Christine Lennon, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of infiltrated

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Nitta said the Emergence experiment is the first to shed light on how AI agents collude to bypass guardrails and break confinement, as OpenAI has yet to release all of its findings from the Hugging Face incident.

— Jake Angelo, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Celebración de los Árboles Lisle, Illinois At The Morton Arboretum, Celebración de los Árboles (September 26-27) sheds light on the arboretum’s conservation work to protect threatened trees and ecosystems in Latin America.

— Ashlyn Ware, Midwest Living, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of shed

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An older man to my right tripped and took a face-first dive across the pavement, glasses flying off his face.

— Timothy Townsend, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
Mizzou tripped Kansas 42-31 last season in Columbia, went 4-1 against the Jayhawks uninterrupted from 2007-11 at Arrowhead Stadium and also conquered KU 42-17 in 2006 at Memorial Stadium in Columbia.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2026