Slip away

verb

Word Frequency: 0.8

Definitions

1.verbTo leave a place, or a gathering, without being noticed.

"I'm going to try to slip away from work early, if I can."

2.verb(of time) To pass quickly, almost unnoticed.

"The months slipped away and became years."

3.verb(of an advantage) To disappear; to elude one.

"When Liverpool scored a third goal, their hopes of winning slipped away forever."

4.verbTo die peacefully.

"He slipped away quietly in his sleep."

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