slip away

Verb

Meaning

pass by

leave furtively and stealthily

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

pass lapse elapse go along steal away slip by sneak out slide by glide by sneak away sneak off bolt fly slip avoid

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Antonyms

remain hold stay stick abide by hang on

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Hypernyms

leave advance progress go on move on pass on

Hyponyms

fly fell vanish

Examples

Freedom is dangerous, Cory, but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage. Octavia Butler

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused. Martha Graham

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. D. H. Lawrence

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. D. H. Lawrence

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away. Harrison Ford

Who seizes too much with his own hand, will have everything slip away and will hold nothing. Sicilian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

sliotar sliothar slip slip away from slip back slip by