slipping
s li ping
- v move stealthily
- v insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- v move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- v get worse
My grades are slipping - v move smoothly and easily
- v to make a mistake or be incorrect
- v pass on stealthily
- v move easily
- v cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- v pass out of one's memory
- v move out of position
- s moving as on a slippery surface
his slipping and slithering progress over the ice
- Is Afghanistan slipping out of America's control? It's an especially relevant question at a time when Pentagon planners are holding up Afghanistan as a template for possible .
- She may not have her game back, but she's slowed and maybe stopped the two-week-old "she's slipping" storyline.
- Many of his fellow militants have also mellowed and are slipping out of the shadows of revolutionary Iran to acknowledge their roles, admit to a few regrets and argue that their .