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Definition of Slip away
1. Verb. Leave furtively and stealthily. "The lecture was boring and many students slipped out when the instructor turned towards the blackboard"
Generic synonyms: Go Away, Go Forth, Leave
2. Verb. Pass by. "Three years elapsed"
Generic synonyms: Advance, Go On, March On, Move On, Pass On, Progress
Specialized synonyms: Fell, Fly, Vanish
Derivative terms: Lapse
Definition of Slip away
1. Verb. To leave a place, or a meeting, without being noticed ¹
2. Verb. (of time) to pass quickly, almost unnoticed. ¹
3. Verb. (of an advantage) To disappear. ¹
4. Verb. To die ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slip Away
Literary usage of Slip away
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) by John Matthews Manly (1916)
"Summer or Winter for aught I can say; So unrecorded did it slip away, So blind
was I to see and to foresee, So dull to mark the budding of my tree That ..."
2. Typical Newspaper Stories by Harry Franklin Harrington (1915)
"... in which it says: slip away ? » perhaps the easiest way to remember your age
is to form some little jingle or rhyme on your birth year. ..."
3. Shirley Brooks of Punch: His Life, Letters, and Diaries by George Somes Layard (1907)
"... flashed into his brain, and he exclaimed with a sigh :— " When a man gets
middle-aged ' Eheu! labuntur anni.' How the Annies slip away from him ! ..."
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