slithers

present tense third-person singular of slither
as in crawls
to move slowly with the body close to the ground a snake slithering through the garden

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Verb
  • In the footage, the dog hilariously crawls under the blanket, which had slipped down the side of his crate, and ends up pulling it completely off.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Dead Bug Ab-cross crawls support overall ab strength.
    Health Editorial Team, Health, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Unlike a broken leg or a sudden illness, hearing loss often creeps in quietly.
    Joseph Coughlin, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Bias also creeps into the data used to train these algorithms, for example when the composition of teams that guide the development of such facial recognition software lack diversity.
    Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The Wild Flint The Flint snakes down Georgia, a safe distance from I-85 and I-75, before joining the Chattahoochee River in Lake Seminole and cutting across the Florida Panhandle as the Apalachicola River.
    David Hanson, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Originating in the Tibetan Plateau, the Nujiang River snakes its way through southern China andeventually flows into Myanmar.
    Lauren Liebhaber September 2, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The bottom panel’s fan mount, mentioned above, is covered from beneath by a filter that slides out, as shown below.
    Thomas Soderstrom, PC Magazine, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Her orange cat slides against our ankles.
    Sarah Adler September 8, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Slithers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slithers. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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