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Definition of Slide down
1. Verb. Fall or sink heavily. "My spirits sank"
Generic synonyms: Break, Cave In, Collapse, Fall In, Founder, Give, Give Way
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slide Down
Literary usage of Slide down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1901)
"He put his hands on the step and then let the body slide down after him. ...
In going down she would sit on a step and slide down to the next lower. ..."
2. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"If he came to a swollen river, which would be fatal to an automobile or any other
engine, it was all in the day's work to the pony; it would slide down the ..."
3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1856)
"When a person enters the hall or entry where this lamp is placed, the door, as
it is opened, is made to slide down the outer wick tube, ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"... and again fullers' earth and water, while heavy oaken mallets or pounders
slide down with force into one end of the troughs and m. ..."
5. An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great by William Kelly (1851)
"... Snakes—Midnight Indian Visit—Get into the Region of Snow—slide down into a
Narrow Valley—Great Anticipations of the Mormon City—Thunder Storm—Exciting ..."
6. The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London (1911)
"The face of that wave may be only six feet, yet you can slide down it a ...
You slide down this new water, and yet remain in your old position on the wave, ..."
7. The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London (1911)
"If it stood still, you would slide down just as a boy slides down a hill on his
... The face of that wave may be only six feet, yet you can slide down it a ..."
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