Synonyms for slip away
slip away

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1. slip awayverb

   To leave a place, or a meeting, without being noticed

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

   Synonyms:
   sneak off, slide off, slip off

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1. slip away, steal away, sneak away, sneak off, sneak outverb

   leave furtively and stealthily

   "The lecture was boring and many students slipped out when the instructor turned towards the blackboard"

   Synonyms:
   slide by, glide by, steal away, slip by, go by, sneak away, go along, sneak off, sneak out, elapse, lapse, pass

2. elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go alongverb

   pass by

   "three years elapsed"

   Synonyms:
   run, perish, elapse, go past, make pass, lead, top, put across, go by, draw, evanesce, continue, occur, die, sneak off, snuff it, excrete, turn over, go, spend, fall back, recidivate, fade, hand, legislate, happen, egest, authorise, exceed, fleet, pass away, drop dead, overstep, transcend, make it, authorize, sneak out, regress, devolve, cash in one's chips, kick the bucket, give, fall out, hap, slip by, go on, sink, eliminate, croak, lapse, pass off, give-up the ghost, return, blow over, take place, play along, expire, overhaul, go through, reach, communicate, go under, come about, keep, choke, pop off, go across, overtake, glide by, sneak away, extend, decease, fall, pass, proceed, pass by, clear, exit, conk, travel by, buy the farm, relapse, pass along, steal away, retrogress, slide by, go along, surpass, guide, backslide, pass on

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1. slip away

   Synonyms:
   escape, glide away, slide away

2. slip away

   Synonyms:
   sneak, skulk, slink, steal away, slink away

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1. Zhang Zhijun:

   I sincerely hope relations across the Taiwan Strait continue to maintain their trend of peaceful development and that the results of this won't slip away now they have been achieved.

2. Mike Conley:

   We'll hopefully be able to get our minds focused on business and not let this one slip away like we did last year.

3. Todd McLellan:

   I can see one slip away but not two. That's unacceptable, that’s two games in a row that played out almost identical in a lot of different ways. And there’s no reason why we should let either of them get away from us.

4. Shah Asad Rizvi:

   Dance to the tune of hope as worries of the past slip away to the surrender of smiles

5. Mark Twain:

   Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.