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1. glide, slide, flow, move smoothly, Dance. glissade; slither, slink, sneak, skulk, lurk, prowl, creep, U.S. Sl. gumshoe; worm, wiggle, wriggle; steal away, slip out or off, escape, get away, flee, run off; evade, elude, dodge, get clear of, break away.

2. pass, elapse, go by, flit or fly by, drift by, be lost.

3. fall, fall down, stumble, lose one's footing, go down, take a spill; tumble, skid, trip, sideslip, dive, go head over heels.

4.(all of knots) untie, unfasten, unbind, untangle, unsnarl, undo.

5. err, blunder, slip up, miscalculate, misjudge, misreckon, mistake; fumble, boggle, botch or botch up, Sl. screw up.

6. decline, depreciate, fall off, drop off, lower, decrease, slump; deteriorate, go downhill, degenerate, regress, backslide, retrogress; flag, sink, droop, fail, wane.

7. don, put on; doff, take off, shed, slough off.

8. neglect, miss, omit, bypass; overlook, disregard, slight.

9. slip [s.t.] over on [s.o.] deceive, defraud, trick, delude, take in, pull the wool over [s.o.'s] eyes.

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10. fall, trip, stumble, spill, skid; slide, glide, Dance. glissade.

11. mistake, error, oversight, omission, inadvertence, Inf. slip-up; indiscretion, impropriety, faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie; blunder, Sl. boo-boo, Sl. goof, Sl. boner, slip of the lip or tongue or pen, Freudian slip, Radio & TV. Sl. blooper; sin, transgression, offense, trespass.

12. decline, downturn, diminution, lessing, lowering, fall-off, downtrend, downslide, downswing, slump, nosedive; depreciation, falling-off, drop-off, dip, decrease, recession; dwindling, deterioration, degeneration, regression, retrogression, retrograda-tion.

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1. scion, cutting, offshoot, sprout, sprig, spray; runner, Bot. sarmentum; switch, twig, branch.

2. strip, slat, splinter, sliver, shiver, shred, fragment.

3. paper, notepaper, note; permission slip, pass, admission, papers, certificate, stub, card.

4. underdress, undergarment, underwear, lingerie; underskirt, petticoat, half-slip; undershirt, chemise, camisole.