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Synonyms for slipping

The synonym for slipping recorded in this bank is slithering, in the sense "moving as on a slippery surface". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for slipping

slitheringadjective, in the sense "moving as on a slippery surface"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for slipping.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High Camp

moving as on a slippery surface

The climbers made slipping progress across the icy slope.

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The true synonym

slithering

Same sentence, swapped: The climbers made slithering progress across the icy slope.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

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Where slipping turns up in the game

slipping is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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